Word: edisonizing
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...indentured housewifery to some women, but not to Lauretta Galligan, who at 52 still rises at 6:30 to prepare her husband's breakfast and get the two sons remaining at home off to school. She smiles happily when her husband Thomas, who is now president of Boston Edison Co., calls her his "greatest asset...
Ghost and Hammer. Archetypical of the new manager is Eugenio Cefis, 50, president of Montecatini Edison, Italy's largest industrial firm. Except for a brief postwar fling at private enterprise, Cefis, who was trained as an economist, has spent most of his career working for ENI, the state-owned petroleum syndicate. Known as "The Ghost" because of his aversion to publicity, Cefis became the shadowy, indispensable Mr. Fixit at ENI. After he became ENI's president in 1967, he built a sound management team by breaking with ancient Italian tradition and wisely delegating authority...
...University's ownership of Black Rock Forest in Cornwall, N.Y., part of which is needed by Consolidated Edison for a widely disputed power project, has thrust it into the uncommon position of being involved in an ecological crisis not of its own making. And it would seem that this is one situation which the University will eventually be forced to face...
Consolidated Edison, of course, has another version. "We still want the project and feel that it is necessary," said Roy Wallace, a Con Ed public information officer. The reason the project has been dropped from the ten-year plan, Wallace said, is that it's future is up in the air because of the court battles...