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...Penn Union Council (PUC) decided this week to show the controversial film, citing the movie's popularity. The council doesn't have the right to shape students attitudes on pornography, the group added...
Rates exploded after the PUC granted PG&E and San Diego Gas & Electric increases of $909 million and $166 million, respectively. In January, PG&E was also allowed to adjust its "tier system," by which the electrical charges go up as usage increases. As a result, at least 50% of the state's residents saw their bills double and in some cases triple...
Responding to public pressure, PUC has ordered PG&E to roll back $100 million of its January rate increase immediately. Last week Governor Brown asked the commission for a further reduction and ordered an investigation into PG&E's construction-cost overruns, including its ill-fated Diablo Canyon nuclear facility, whose completion has been delayed by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission probe into its design and safety...
...short man with a wide brow, a benign expression, and a mission that even the Indians have noticed. They call him Puc-puggy (the flower hunter). William Bartram is collecting and classifying America's plants and seeds. He sends the most interesting specimens, or his drawings of them, to John Fothergill, a botanist and physician in London who is paying Bartram's expenses plus ? 50 a year. What the current troubles between the Colonies and England will do to this arrangement is uncertain, though Bartram never gives politics a thought. He moves totally rapt in the world...
...certain to get Senate approval for the job, will succeed Ross Rizley, who has been appointed a federal judge in Oklahoma. No aviation expert but well-grounded in the legal complexities of transportation, Durfee started as an attorney in Antigo, Wis. in 1927, became a member of the Wisconsin PUC in 1951, chairman two years later. ¶ Sir Miles Thomas, 59, who resigned as chairman of British Overseas Airways Corp. (TIME, April 2), signed on as a director of Monsanto Chemicals Ltd., British subsidiary of St. Louis' Monsanto Chemical Co. He will become the subsidiary's board chairman...