Word: edison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Institute: "The technology exists today to save 75% of the electricity and 80% of the oil used in the U.S. without lowering our standard of living at all." Several electric utilities are leading the way in making companies more conservation-conscious. Southern California Edison runs 50 different energy-management programs, which helped hold the growth in demand for the utility's electricity to 2.1% over the past decade, in contrast to 4.1% from...
Wise, 41, may be poised to become as important an inventor and entrepreneur as Thomas Edison or Henry Ford. His red contact lenses are already on 100,000 chickens nation-wide, and his company, Animalens Inc., is growing...
...economics award for his work in econometrics: "Haavelmo had a tremendous influence on me and on many other young econometricians in the 1940s." Concurred Robert Solow of the Massachusetts $ Institute of Technology, the 1987 laureate: "It's like giving the Nobel Prize for Physics to Thomas Edison. You slap your forehead and wonder why they didn't do it sooner...
...lawyer opened the first commercial plant designed to produce electricity by burning cattle dung. Situated near El Centro, Calif., the Mesquite Lake Resource Recovery Project generates 17.5 MW per hr. -- enough to power 15,000 homes -- and sells most of it under a 30-year contract to Southern California Edison...
...years, Chrysler's the smallest in a decade. While none of the automakers are scheduling long-term shutdowns, many workers are being idled for the first time since the last recession. Ford, which has run continuous overtime for the past five years, announced layoffs at Escort plants in Edison, N.J., and Wayne, Mich., and will temporarily close Taurus and Sable assembly plants in Chicago and Atlanta...