Word: edisonizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Southern California Edison, which has a request for a 21% rate increase in the works, would have to increase its rate yet an additional 6% if the Ford program is adopted. The Florida Power Corp. estimates an average monthly increase of $5 for residential customers, many of whom are retirees living on relatively fixed incomes. And New York's Con Edison faces the unpleasant prospect of translating a $200 million extra oil-bill burden into a 7.5% rate increase for its customers-who are already paying the company 42% more a month than a year...
...Catherine Jackson, a York, Pa., welfare mother, had her electric power switched off without a hearing in October 1971. The Metropolitan Edison Co. had discontinued Mrs. Jackson's service once before when she failed to pay her bill but later restored it under a new account in the name of another occupant of the Jackson household. When new bills totaling $30 went unpaid, the utility again turned off the electricity. Mrs. Jackson went to court, seeking damages and an injunction calling for renewed service. To cut off her power without first giving her a hearing, Mrs. Jackson...
Today, more than half a century after he completed the bulk of his work, Ives is generally acknowledged as the greatest, certainly the most original of America's composers. A fierce, patriotic innovator, he combined the best instincts of Edison and Whitman; he was the first important American to pioneer a musical path outside the European tradition. He was once thought of, erroneously, as a kind of Grandma Moses of music, an untutored primitive breaking all the rules without realizing it. Ives broke the rules all right, but only after having mastered them as a Yale music student...
...century has seen almost as many Leonardos as there have been léonardistes. Magus, "Renaissance man," supergay, world's first nonlinear thinker -the parade of stereotypes marches on. At one moment he struck the Victorians as a prototype of the engineer-hero, a 15th century Brunel or Edison who lacked only the omnipotent semen of capital to make his projects real. At the next, the English 19th century aesthete Walter Pater wrote of his mechanical inventions as mere "dreams, thrown off by the overwrought and laboring brain...
...seen them all," observed Minnesota Governor Wendell Anderson. And so it went, each group contending in ef fect that the burden of fighting inflation should be placed on somebody else. The self-interested pleading took up much time at the summit itself. Charles Luce, chairman of Consolidated Edison of New York, one of the nation's largest power companies, asked the Government to take some action to relieve the "desperate" credit crunch in the utilities industry. A coal company executive, Ian MacGregor of Amax, Inc. urged that the U.S. ease the energy crunch by doubling its use of - what...