Word: megawatt
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...obvious. Mike Aguirre, a San Diego lawyer who specializes in fraud and is representing California in one of its suits against Enron, took an energy-trading course in Houston last year in an enterprising bid to understand what the other side was being taught. There he learned Megawatt Laundering, or how to sell California its own electricity for a higher price by pretending it came from out of state. He also learned the Daisy Chain Swap, or how to form a temporary cartel with other traders to inflate prices. "It's clear these companies were signaling among themselves using...
...market, is prohibited by the California ISO's regulations, but because there were seven different energy markets the ISO had to keep tabs on and because it is so difficult to pin down whether a company has the energy it says it has--who has ever seen a megawatt hour?--the trades were able to slip...
John Lithgow ’67 can’t sing. This, at first, might seem to be a problem for a man starring in a multimillion-dollar new Broadway musical. But when that man possesses the megawatt persona, effortless timing and sheer star power of the immensely talented Lithgow, the only problem is suffering through the moments when he’s offstage...
...Clinton's impeachment, Sorkin's White House drama debuted on NBC. The aides were sexy, honorable and smart. The President was a folksy Nobel laureate with touches of F.D.R., Stephen Hawking, Will Rogers and the Buddha. The series was a hit, and in the glow of the characters' thousand-megawatt halos, TV's view of Washington--once typified by the evil FBI conspiracists on The X-Files--started to shift...
...sense of style rivals Carrie Bradshaw’s. The celebrated actress hits Cambridge courtesy of HPT’s annual celebrity roasts. In a week, Man of the Year Bruce Willis will get his roast as well. According to HPT staff, it is usually not tough to convince megawatt stars to accept the nationally recognized Man and Woman of the Year awards. It is more difficult, however, to pick exactly which stars get to take home a pudding...