Word: pg
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...What's fueling the high-rise fever is simple: excess cash. Enron's first-quarter revenues were up 281%, while Calpine's revenues and net income were each up more than 400%--even with California's deadbeat utility PG&E owing the company more than $300 million...
...picker," male or female, is chained to four "dates" over four days--and called it a "relationship show." (NBC later took the high road and aired the XFL instead.) Turns out the description was accurate. The surprising thing about Chains (UPN, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.) is not the PG-rated sex play (the chainees wear chaste bathing suits even in a hot tub) but the discovery that even reality-TV exhibitionists have thoroughly internalized the chatty psychobabble of relationship gurus. In the debut, picker Andy spends less time trying to score than prattling about his dates' "honesty," "self-esteem...
...results were catastrophic. Unable to pass along rising costs to homes and businesses, PG&E and SCE piled up losses and owed more than $12 billion to their banks and power providers. The utilities defaulted on some loans last week and refused to pay bills, creating a showdown with their bankers and power suppliers. Either group, in fact, could have forced the utilities into bankruptcy...
...California dismantled its private power-generating industry without securing adequate power supplies. The Big Three utilities, which in addition to PG&E and SCE include San Diego Gas & Electric, sold off plants to outsiders like Duke Energy of Charlotte, N.C., and Reliant Energy of Houston and became middlemen. But the state wouldn't allow these new intermediaries to enter long-term purchasing agreements for fear they would be locked into fixed-price contracts as prices dropped. Their purchases had to be made on the so-called spot--or cash--market, and prices were low at the time...
Nine months ago, the geeks were expected to inherit the earth. Now they consider themselves lucky if they remembered to hit CONTROL-S on their PC keyboards before the screen faded. Once the ruling emotion was IPO frenzy; now it's PG&E fear. The Internet itself is pretty well protected, with most websites housed in generator-filled buildings called data centers. The carefree life of dotcommers who run the websites, however...