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...generating plants eliminated the need to borrow for improvements for some time. The $1 billion or so that the company plans to spend on new plant and equipment over the next three years will be financed entirely out of earnings; this will leave sufficient money in the Con Ed till to continue paying quarterly dividends, which were resumed after the 1974 hiatus and were raised to 500 a share in January. Additionally, a program to collect delinquent accounts more quickly has cut down the time of the average unpaid bill from 59 days in 1973 to a present tolerable level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Catharsis Time Again at Con Ed | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...opponents are getting desperate," she says. "They began attacking me in June instead of waiting till August." Being the front runner does not displease her. "Look at it this way. I'm the underdog who happens to be ahead." And she smiles, not at all sweetly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Abzug: Rage and Asphalt Glamor | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...more than a politician's foe. He's the foe of everyone interested in more than immediate monetary gain. Those buildings mentioned so casually in your article are desperately needed university facilities. If McCarney had his way, our state universities would simply be starved of funds till they died a natural death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 4, 1977 | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

...Francine, Minnelli is wholesome, glib, plucky - more a familiar manner than a characterization. Despite some heavy histrionics in her marital squabbles with Jimmy, there is a sense in her performance of counting the choruses till her next solo. Indeed, the latter half of the film moves toward her virtual apotheosis in a series of climactic production numbers. Their impact depends on how you feel about Liza's nightclub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dissonant Duet | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...female orgasm--once a hot political question--as it is to get involved in the fight between the Trillings and Hellman. At the time of the events Trillings describes, her superficial sort of moralizing might have been acceptable, an on-the-spot kind of description. Analysis could wait till later. But now it is later and by merely recycling her moralizing, Trilling fails to illumine anything...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Feet Don't Fail Me Now | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

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