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...principal owner, Public Service Co. of New Hampshire, admitted last month that because of Seabrook it may be forced into bankruptcy. If that happens, it will be the first major U.S. utility to file for bankruptcy since the Great Depression. Last week, in a drastic effort to keep itself solvent, the company abruptly halted work on Seabrook and stopped paying dividends to shareholders. The company hopes to resume work by arranging for new loans...
Some say he also has a lot to contribute to the troubled news network. Grossman won general applause for guiding PBS through several financial crunches, and leaves a strengthened, and solvent, system with twice as many regular viewers (86 million) as it had when he arrived...
...poured his tea into a saucer before drinking it (there he goes, that Socialist who says such terrible things about Mr. Stalin). Eric Blair had totally metamorphosed into George Orwell; the mask had become the man. Money was still scarce; his books had made him well known but not solvent. He turned out columns for Tribune, a weekly organ of the non-Communist British left, and did wartime broadcasts for the BBC's Eastern Service to India and Southeast Asia. He also wrote Animal Farm...
Poring over the histories and financial ledgers of past Games in exacting detail, Ueberroth concluded that, minus construction costs, all of them would have been solvent. Of course, they might not have appeared as grand. But then, as he analyzes recent Olympics, "They have had two purposes: first, as a statement by a national government. The Germans were saying, 'We're a large, industrialized nation recovered from war. We are a friendly, outgoing world citizen.' The Canadians were saying, 'We are not the stepchild of the United States. We are strong and wonderful.' Certainly the Soviets said time and time...
...antibacterial effect of the mold from which penicillin is made. He is a short (5 ft. 7 in.), gentle, retiring Scot with somewhat dreamy blue eyes, fierce white hair and a mulling mind, which, when it moves, moves with the thrust of a cobra. Until time's solvent has dissolved the human slag, it will be hard to say who the great men of the 20th Century are. But Dr. Alexander Fleming is almost certainly one of them...