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...addition, "the bare possibility that MATEP may sell excess energy to Boston Edison in the future does not affect the plant's non-profit status, "particularly when there is little likelihood that such sales will occur," he wrote...
...screen. With four-and-a-half hours of film, a new score written and conducted by Francis Ford Coppola's father and played by a 60-piece orchestra, and a three-screen panoramic ending, it may be the biggest thing since The Seventh Seal--or may be even Edison, for crissake...
...semi-poverty of rural northern Michigan where irrelevance turns to comic Scandinavian angst. Trysts in his overheated Subaru prove difficult; his forays at gourmet cooking are disasters; insolvency threatens. Then, in the nick of time, Lundgren's wife Diana gets him a job with Dr. Rabun, a prosthetic Edison who designs sexual aids that imitate the motion of swimming porpoises. The doctor's problems: his extensive investments in timber and real estate are being skimmed, and his gay son and free-spending wife are bleeding him dry. Warlock's assignment: remove the bad apples from the barrel...
...Boston Edison Co. in September abandoned plans for its Pilgrim II plant in Plymouth, Mass. When first proposed in 1972, the plant was supposed to cost $402 million and begin producing electricity in 1979; by last month the cost was estimated at $4 billion and start-up projected...
...major weakness of his solution lies in its implementation. Thomas Edison believed when he invented motion pictures that within 50 years newspapers would be extinct and that no one would be learning from books. What Edison did not realize was that some changes will never be made because society does not want more efficiency at the expense of institutions. Similarly, people want to feel they are needeed for work. There are already millions of elderly people who don't want to retire but must. Most countries are highly nationalistic, with no desire to be integrated into a world-wide super...