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...giant ABB. The company expects to earn up to $2 billion as the U.S. reinvests in its glitchy power grid. ABB claims more than 60% of the market for the electric-transmission and -distribution equipment that needs renovation or replacement. "This isn't going to happen overnight," says Randy Schrieber, vice president of ABB's U.S. Power Technologies division. "But the impetus that the utility companies have shown from the blackout bodes well for us." This promising news and the streamlining instituted by Jurgen Dormann, the German CEO who was imported last year to save the nearly bankrupt company, have...
Meanwhile, Amelia's close friend and former lover, Andrew (Liev Schrieber) spends his time in an expensive long distance phone-sex relationship, when he's not shamefacedly renting porn...
Fine performances prevail across the board, with Keener's Amelia deserving special mention. In chronicling the little hops and skips as life moves along, the actors have notably apt timing: Schrieber as Andrew pauses for just the right amount of cautious, heaven-helpme time when Amelia asks if she can question him about why they really broke...
...Mexico early one morning last week, Georg Schrieber, lighting designer for the Santa Fe Opera Company, heard explosions in his sleep. "I was dreaming," he recalls, "and I remember thinking it sounded like the fireworks at the end of Hans Werner Henze's opera The Stag King. Then I realized that couldn't be right and I woke up." Five hundred feet from the ranch house where Schrieber was staying, the company's redwood theater was engulfed in lurid flames. At dawn, all that was left of one of America's hand somest outdoor music facilities...
When the U.S. Peace Corps contingent arrived in Tanganyika nine months ago, recalled Corpsman Eugene Schrieber, 23, an engineer from University City, Mo., "a mere sign on a golf course fairway startled us into the realization that at long last we really made it." Planted near the jungle rough, the sign said: BEWARE OF LIONS...