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...demand was handed over in 1998 to an Independent System Operator (ISO), which would buy from providers (like Enron, Calpine and Dynegy) and sell to middlemen (companies like Pacific Gas & Electric) as necessary, even paying providers to take excess electricity out of the state at times when supplies were flush. And if the markets got too rough? Never fear; price caps were in place...
...Last month shareholders approved a deal to sell LG&E Energy Corp., based in Louisville, Ky., to the German giant E.ON. Its German competitor, RWE, bought one of the largest U.S. water utilities in January, the same month that a British firm picked up Niagara Mohawk of Syracuse, N.Y. Flush with cash and out of room to grow on their own turf, the Europeans see an opportunity in the U.S. to pick up individual plants or whole companies at fire-sale prices...
...good job to make me rush it a little bit,” Crockett said. “But that’s the stuff you work on in practice. You’re mad at yourself for a couple of minutes, but you have to flush it out of your head for the next batter...
...nearby in either north Waziristan or the Tirah valley. Officially, Pakistan's government, sensitive to popular anti-American sentiment, denies that U.S. special forces crossed into its tribal borderlands. Whether or not U.S. troops are on the ground, Washington must depend, at least in part, on Pakistani intelligence to flush out remaining fugitives. The working deal is this: the American hunters provide electronic surveillance and whopping rewards for information; the ISI supplies the human intel, the spies and informants who actually know who is where...
...Wall Street's bulls lapped up the news that the nation's highest-profile manufacturers - and one of its handiest gauges of consumer sentiment - were feeling flush, and staged a stirring comeback in a season that hasn't seen many of those. By the closing bell, the Dow was up 113 points, and had crossed back over the 10,000 mark (for the 15th time...