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...Side, which looks like a set lifted from Dr. Strangelove, the company's technicians coolly watched banks of panels covered with fluttering dials, oscillating graphs and blinking lights. Given a capacity supply of about 7,300 megawatts, on one day they doled out as much as 7,245 Mw in the peak-consumption hours. But each time, as the safety margin neared, the calm technicians ordered voltages reduced by 3% to 5% and quickly asked the city's biggest consumers to start unplugging everything from air conditioners and lights to escalators...
...from Webb & Knapp in 1961, where they are joint partners with Webb & Knapp with 47.5% each (the remaining sliver belongs to Alcoa). Zeckendorf Property has under way 13 promising urban development projects, including Manhattan's Lincoln Towers, and Zeckendorf plans to continue linking up with partners to build mw development projects-but to keep ouTsiders out of Webb & Knapp. He hopes that assiduous real estate trading can keep the company going until the income from the projects begins to roll...
...summary of the findings to date, written by Douglas in the form of a "Memo from a Minister's Wife," the typical MW tells the congregation: "Please realize that my husband's vocation does not automatically make me an inspirational speaker, or confident group leader, or talented singer, or piano player, or even church schoolteacher...
...Goldfish Bowl. Minister Douglas (himself married for eight years) came across surprisingly few complaints about the two stock ministerial miseries: low salaries and goldfish-bowl living. On the other hand, one MW problem he did not expect to find with such frequency is the wife's own need for pastoral counseling...
...often you are too tired at the end of a wearing day either to share your thoughts with me or to listen to mine," his typical MW writes to her husband. "Often I am in need of someone to listen to my problems, to answer my spiritual questions, and to fill my emotional needs. To whom can I turn if you are not my pastor as well as my husband? I wonder sometimes if in the concentration on your professional duties, our own religious life is not in danger of becoming superficial and mechanical...