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Word: psc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...1950s, Kahn, a registered Democrat, served on the senior staff of President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers. From 1974 until his appointment to the CAB, he was chairman of New York State's Public Service Commission. Under his direction, the PSC allowed telephone users to hook up their own equipment to the Bell system and permitted utility companies to set different electric rates depending on the time of day. As Kahn advised his CAB successor, Marvin Cohen: "Understand how a free market works and restrain one's tendency to meddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Kind of Guy the President Likes | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...PSC Property...

Author: By Patricia A. Wathen, | Title: 18 Arrested at Seabrook Site As Construction Begins Again | 8/15/1978 | See Source »

...twelve demonstrators, arrested on land owned by the Public Service Company (PSC), which is building the plant, were charged with criminal tresspass, which can bring a penalty of up to one year in prison and/or a $1000 fine. They may also be charged with contempt of court, since a court injunction against trespassing on PSC land, which was issued in June, is still in effect...

Author: By Patricia A. Wathen, | Title: 18 Arrested at Seabrook Site As Construction Begins Again | 8/15/1978 | See Source »

...Hampshire, the mass arrests came close to bankrupting the state, costing it $50,000 a day, while the local community turned strongly against the Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSC) and reactionary state government. So much so, in fact, that the residents of Seabrook recently voted this time in a binding referendum, to cut off the Public Service Company's water supply. PSC responded by getting a court injunction against the town's action, and has since been hounded by threats of violence from Seabrook housewives, who are already being forced to ration water...

Author: By Geoff Bernstein, | Title: We Just Can't Afford... | 5/5/1978 | See Source »

Even if the PSC grants a permit to AP&L after the proper safeguards are installed, no one can guarantee that the utility will not get its way in the end. That wonderful figment of everyone's imagination--the energy crisis--will provide AP&L the perfect opportunity to plead for dispensation from the 1970 Clean Air standards...

Author: By Steve Luxenberg, | Title: Power Plant in a Nutshell | 11/14/1973 | See Source »

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