Word: processing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...restrain ourselves from calling them). The actual response was, "We will be calling if we want an interview, but it will definitely take a few months, because we're starting with the highest offices and working our way down." After another round of questions, we were told that this process could actually take a year. Oh. Hmm. Well, we certainly hope all this kvetching hasn't hurt our chances...
...Linney takes the lead as Sammy, a small-town bank manager who was orphaned as a girl and who's still experiencing growing pains as a single mom with a little boy (Rory Culkin), a wayward younger brother (Mark Ruffalo) and a frustrating new boss (Matthew Broderick). In the process, Linney produces some of the year's most indelible acting moments. Watch her drive alone from an ill-advised rendezvous with her boss and see the emotions illuminate Linney's face like flickering candles - a smile, a jolt of sadness, a surge of joy. "She made a little play...
...meet the payments. Moved by her distress, her mother paid the bill, hoping Mary had learned her lesson. Instead she did the same thing again. The second time, Mary, soon to graduate from university, paid the debt herself and learned very nicely how to manage money in the process...
...helps explain why blueprints for generators keep gathering dust while California's energy crisis deepens. Proposals for 44 plants representing 22,600 megawatts of generating capacity are currently before California regulatory bodies. But only a handful are likely to come online before 2003. "California has a very cumbersome siting process," says Michael Zenker, a director of Cambridge Energy Research Associates. "It's long and gives opponents a good chance of defeating any plan." To make matters worse, some 40% of the state's capacity comes from facilities built more than 30 years ago, making them prone to equipment problems...
More important, the Lone Star State has encouraged power-plant construction. Its environmental regulations are less strict than California's, and its approval process more streamlined. Since 1995, 22 new plants have come online, and an additional 15 should be up and running in a couple of years. With that much capacity, it's no wonder state officials are guaranteeing a 6% rate cut from the get-go when retail deregulation takes effect next year...