Word: caps
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...regulation-averse, Republican-led Senate just passed legislation to create an industry-oversight committee--this isn't an election year, is it?--to handle disputes and ensure the reliability of electricity nationwide. More ominous, in California the outcry has been so intense that utility officials recently lowered the price cap on rates that generators can charge on the open market. While that may help ease pricing pressure in the near term, it could easily backfire. Says Stephen Baum, vice chairman of Sempra Energy, parent company of SDG&E: "This would simply create a shortage. Those generators might just sell their...
...certain base of equity. This would help start-ups a lot. It would help emerging companies reinvest cash back into their businesses and stimulate growth. For it to work, the Federal Government and probably the state governments would have to set some sort of cap or float ceiling noting where that tax would start and how it would rise. It would probably have to vary by industry, because some businesses are more capital-intensive than others...
...interior designer Dale Beck and George Beck, who designed the first portable TV for G.E. in the '50s, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and opened (Eleven) four years ago. The boutique firm won three Industrial Design Excellence Awards last year, including one for a hanging cap rack that neatly holds the hats by the little buttons on top. Beck's firm also creates its own line of products, which includes a surprising amount of pet items, from a retractable leash with a flashlight to a covered Kitty Litter box. Says Beck: "It's just simple things, like...
...forbidden - that Al-Khalifa was confined to her house; she contacted Johnson through secret letters. Then last November, when his tour was over, the couple sneaked out of Bahrain on a commercial jet with Al-Khalifa disguised as a Marine, her hair tucked into a New York Yankees baseball cap. They landed in Chicago, only to meet the stateside heavies: the Immigration and Naturalization Service had been alerted by Bahrain and had been requested to send the woman back immediately. Al-Khalifa in turn claimed asylum. If sent home, she said, she would face ostracism, persecution, even death...
...annual budget of $200,000, you haven't seen Pregracke at work. He's tireless. Today he's driving a forklift around his barges, sorting old car seats and lawn ornaments and tractor chassis into separate piles for recycling. All sandy hair and freckles, dressed in a life jacket, cap and khaki shorts and sporting a pair of wraparound dark shades, Pregracke could be a latter-day Huck Finn. His grin is impish, his body compact and coiled. Two lean, tanned young women in similar uniforms--Jennifer Anderson, 26, and Lisa Hoffman, 22--toil alongside him, heaving corroded truck tires...