Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The prayerful band started its cursing crusade only after "nights of soul-searching" convinced its members that Japan's notoriously lax antipollution laws needed divine guidance. At first, the group was apprehensive. "I felt like an idiot, an impossible Buddhist Quixote in this age of technology," recalls Masaki Umehara...
Added Clout. While no industrialists have yet perished from the monks' verbal barbs, some have been shaken. "We want no curse on us-period," says an electric-power-company executive. Despite such grumbling, no one has legally attacked the cursers. "If any of the corporations concerned wanted to sue...
In 1967, when Charles F. Luce became chairman of New York's huge Consolidated Edison Co., his first priority seemed clear. Since the average New Yorker then used only half as much electricity as the average American, Luce yearned to boost consumption-and did. But last week he told...
Luce is regarded as one of the most socially responsible leaders in the utility business. He is also a realist. Crippled by equipment breakdowns. Con Ed has been forced to cut voltage in controlled "brownouts" for the past two summers. Meantime, New Yorkers demand ever more power. Con Ed is...
As a long-term solution, Luce last week suggested a new federal excise tax of "perhaps 1%" on electric bills to speed new ways of generating power compatible with the environment. Until that luminous day comes, Luce is prepared to take an antigrowth position that other utility men might consider...