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Despite its last-place slot in the November election and its non-binding status, the vote could affect nuclear power in Massachusetts -- especially Boston Edison's plans to build a second nuclear plant in Plymouth...
...Boston Edison is not mounting a specific campaign against the referendum but is merely continuing "its ten-year drive to educate the public about nuclear power," a spokesman said yesterday. The spokesman added that despite the $2 billion price tag on Pilgrim II, nuclear power is highly "cost-efficient...
...threw out a municipal ordinance that limited door-to-door and on-street fund raising by "cause" groups (Village of 'Schaumburg vs. Citizens for a Better Environment). Corporations, meantime, got the green light to speak out more freely in cases involving utility companies that promoted nuclear power (Consolidated Edison Co. vs. Public Service Commission) and a greater use of electricity...
...Tiffany seemed content to rest on his considerable laurels as a decorator, having to his credit the nearly total redecoration of the White House for President Chester Arthur, and was concentrating on his glassmaking. He saw new opportunities in the invention of the incandescent bulb. Working with Thomas Alva Edison, he realized that something was needed both to soften the brightness of the new light and to conceal the bulb's unlovely shape. He came up with the lampshade that is perhaps his most famous design...
...Board Director James Aljian ($1.8 million). Two of Mobil Corp.'s top executives were also in the millionaires' club: Chairman Rawleigh Warner Jr. ($4.3 million) and President William Tavoulareas ($2.3 million). The fourth top earner was Richard Vieser, executive vice president of the electrical equipment manufacturer McGraw-Edison ($2.6 million...