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As energy deregulation and skyrocketing prices continue to roil the California market the decision to retrofit two 1,000-ton chillers with variable-frequency drives at San Diego's One America Plaza office tower last year was either sheer genius Learn more

For a while the phrase "paradigm shift" seemed to appear way too often in literature and lexicon though the term has been heard less frequently since the dot.com meltdown But leave it to one of the backbones of American manufacturing the plastics Learn more