We believe a court-supervised process under Chapter 11 will best enable PGE to resolve its potential liabilities in an orderly, fair and expeditious fashion, we expect this process also will enable PGE to access the capital and resources we need to continue providing our customers with safe service and investing in our systems and infrastructure.

John Simon

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The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.

player jars games

The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur, its chances of prevailing are slim. Yet it exists, and its mere existence is reason enough for not wiping the name of mankind off the slate.

slim evil names

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flyi... by John Simon

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

bricks flying funny

It's wonderful to be hated by idiots. by John Simon

It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.

idiot hated wonderful

Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.

entertainment two art

Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female.

homicide female white

If you love language, it will love you back. by John Simon

If you love language, it will love you back.

language ifs love-you

Dinner theater is anti-culture. by John Simon

Dinner theater is anti-culture.

dinner theater culture

This case is just as racist as the fictional, but unfortunately all too typical case, in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.

mockingbird typical racist

Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique without much artistry can still dazzle us in the manner of the circus or sports arena translated to a higher plane. Though the perfect blend of the two elements is the consummation devoutly to be wished, the real enemy of good ballet is not the slight preponderance of one or the other but the prevalence of pantomime--the turning of dance into second-rate theater.

strong real sports

It's hard to lose when your standards are so low. by John Simon

It's hard to lose when your standards are so low.

standards hard lows

Retailing is a unique destination. What you need is stronger crit... by John Simon

Retailing is a unique destination. What you need is stronger critical mass.

stronger unique needs

People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?

time-and-money people

Chess is a cold bath for the mind by John Simon

Chess is a cold bath for the mind

baths mind chess

Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.

cancer stress cells

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which th... by John Simon

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.

In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax...

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which th... by John Simon

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill. by John Simon

Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.

downhill only go like

We like to be the largest outside investor, and the first outside... by John Simon

We like to be the largest outside investor, and the first outside investor.

investor outside first like