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...London. "They take the attitude, it's a regulated industry ... whoever owns [British businesses], it's the same rules." To foreign shoppers like E.ON, that leaves Britain "wide open," Van Brevoort says. Scottish Power - which already rebuffed a $19 billion bid from E.ON late last year - and British Gas owner Centrica could both come under the hammer. And after its plan for Suez "blew up in its face," as one Italian energy analyst sees it, Enel, too, may bid for assets in Britain. Is there a perfect number of players that would make the European energy market competitive? "There will...
ELECTED. EFFA MANLEY, as the first woman member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The white co-owner of the Newark Eagles, one of baseball's Negro National League teams in the 1930s and '40s, was a civil rights activist; she died in 1981. After selling the club in 1948, Manley lobbied for the Hall of Fame to include Negro League stars; 16 will be inducted with her in July in Cooperstown...
...during his aggressive 20-year tenure as publisher of the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s and '70s, transformed the paper into one of the country's premier exemplars of daily journalism; in Ojai, Calif. The great-grandson of Harrison Gray Otis, who became publisher and part-owner of the Times in 1882, Chandler--a surfer who loved racing his Porsche--was the last in his family to head the paper...
Every iTunes library has a few songs that leave their owner blushing. Listening to them is musical onanism; everyone does it, but no one wants to talk about what happens when the roommate’s out of the dorm.Or do they?The Crimson spoke with four of the most accomplished artists on campus and asked them: “What’s the point of ‘pop’ music?”Fun may be a factor, but the answer isn’t pure hedonism. Pop plays a different role in the lives...
...Jerry’s is a franchised chain, which means that every store owner has the freedom to determine the prices for their products, said Try U. Serino, the owner of a Ben and Jerry’s in Salem, Mass...