Word: edisons
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...some of the equipment in use is not that much newer. My neighborhood barber gives me a straight-blade shave, proceeded by several rounds of ointments and creams, and then a full facial and head massages with some sort of ancient vibrating contraption that looks like a Thomas Edison prototype. I don't know what that thing is, but it keeps me going back...
...name that blows up the monopoly of a traditional school district. In the process, they have attracted the best school operators from around the nation to show what they can do, ranging from national nonprofit charter networks such as KIPP schools to for-profit companies like Edison Schools...
...rebuild, and aid from the philanthropist Walter Shorenstein and Bill Clinton's foundation soon followed. Thus fortified, LaToya Cantrell, president of the association, and Hal Roark, executive director of the Broadmoor Development Corp., helped the community take control of the neighborhood school. They formed a school board and selected Edison Schools, the education company founded by entrepreneur Chris Whittle, to operate a charter school...
...Utilities Commission and became the most visible and powerful utility consumer advocate in the country. Her expertise and occasional name-calling helped quash a plan to impose a "customer charge" even if no electricity was used during a given month, helped expose $345 million in overcharges by Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric, and was instrumental in creating affordable "lifeline" rates for low-income customers...
...cost of switching to cars. At the time, a gallon of gasoline cost 18¢, which today would be close to $4--exactly where some experts think we might be headed. But that was still a bargain compared with the oats and tack and stables needed to sustain what Thomas Edison called "the poorest motor ever built...