Soaring Electric Use More Fiction Than Fact
Chronicle investigation finds power companies
manipulate data to excuse their towering rates
Christian Berthelsen, Scott Winokur, Chronicle Staff
Writers
Sunday, March 11, 2001
©2001 San Francisco Chronicle
Power companies say it so often, and
CB: If I follow you, what occurs to me is , 1) no individual worker
or generation of white workers gets the whole long run accumulation
of advantages; 2) Reich or or someone else cited studied and
compared North and South and found overall lower wages associated
with greater
I rarely read the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. A recent
article in Slate sent me back for this gem:
Warren Buffett's America: Shades of Mao in his defense of the death tax.
MELIK KAYLAN
Wall Street Journal Tuesday, March 6, 2001
"Here's why I would -- and I'm not ashamed to be
This article argues the larger percentage of GDP spent on health care as
compared to Britain explains the fact that France's health care system is
superior to that of Britain and that there are not long waiting lists. But
if this were so the US system should be the best rather than the worst
Doug Henwood likes to quote an apothogem he he attributes to Stalin: For
some people, four walls are three too many. --jks
I rarely read the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. A recent
article in Slate sent me back for this gem:
Warren Buffett's America: Shades of Mao in his defense
Dear Friends,
First of all, let me say hello to all of you. I recently joined PEN-L as I discovered
it only a
short while ago, basicly after Michael P. forwarded to me a few e-mails from this
list. This
appears to be a high volume list and I must confess I find it difficult to follow your
With the USA heading into recession, the continued sluggishness of the
Japanese economy is bad news for any hopes that a global recession might be
avoided.
It is hard to see the leading state banks coming together to back a concord
that one trading block should become the spender of last
