An office that is home to high-pressure telephone sales - a "boiler room" - also makes it into the new edition.
By compensating executives for the brilliance of their deals, rather than their long-term profitability, Enron created the corporate equivalent of a boiler-room scam shop.
Wiring inspections -- and work on a leaking ammonia boiler -- lie ahead.
The heliostats track the sun throughout the day, focusing its rays on a water-filled boiler that sits atop the tower.
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After completing an apprenticeship as a boiler-maker in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, he found no work at home, so he moved to Johannesburg last October, and was immediately offered three jobs.
He worked as a delivery boy, a lather boy, a lift boy and a bell boy before entering the housepainting trade, mastering the crafts of graining and marbling just in time to be enlisted as a boiler-stoker in the Second World War.
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The 59-acre (24 hectare) site will also boast a solar thermal hot water system to pre-heat the water for the heating system, and a biomass boiler that will provide heat using locally-sourced wood chips.
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To find their "mooches" for this latest scam, for a small fee the boiler-room operators buy from the BLM computerized lists of leaseholders, many of whom had previously made their purchases through other scam artists.
It will have some costs on the front end -- you buy a new boiler, or you get some insulation, or you get some new windows, that's going to have an initial cost, and the same is true from a government perspective.
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To refuel between rides or while waiting in the lengthy queues, you can buy a steamed bun -- originally a traditional Chinese delicacy with hot, sweet or savoury fillings -- from Boiler Room Bites in Adventureland.
Flemish enthusiasts at Steam Center Maldegem, a heritage center in northern Belgium, recently spent a cold day cutting spare boiler screws for their stable, which includes a Polish-built steam engine, the "General Maczek, " named for the Polish general who helped liberate Belgium in World War II.
The sludge also invaded basement workshops, the rehearsal room, a new boiler room and a costume-rental shop across the street.
For small investors it will be either a great level-the-playing-field opportunity to get in on the ground floor of promising startups or a federally sanctioned invitation to fraud on a scale not seen since the boiler-room days.
That's like buying the new boiler -- if it's busted, you got to get a new boiler.
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In the paper mill's latest ''green'' project, they're installing a new boiler designed to burn the wood-chips they used to throw away.
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Others cite Boiler Room, about a college-age kid who gets involved in a crooked brokerage on Long Island and finds himself in an ethical pickle.
Combined with the phase change material, this would allow a boiler to fire much less often -- seems like a great idea, if you ask us.
Philadelphia (CNN) -- Four adults imprisoned in a dark Philadelphia boiler room, beaten and underfed, were confined like zoo animals, federal prosecutors said Wednesday in announcing a 196-count indictment against their alleged captors.
The four adults held captive -- Edwin Sanabria, Herbert Knowles, Tamara Breeden and Derwin McLemire -- were locked in a pitch-black, 13-by-7 foot room that housed the former boiler used to heat the building, police said.
Playing landlord has a downside-that midnight February call to fix the boiler. (Isaac Victor just saw the 1990 tenant-from-hell movie Pacific Heights and admits he has qualms.) For those souls who can deal with the hassles, we have some math to tell which is the best choice.
Emerging from the world of penny stock operators, the company survived a cast of dubious financiers during the late eighties and early nineties: a Genovese crime family-associated broker, a Ponzi schemer and a stock swindler, whose firm inspired the movie Boiler Room, none of whose wrongdoings was related to BioReference or Grodman.
Your car is 10 years old, and you've got a boiler in the house you got to fix -- right?
If you are living on means tested benefits AND you live in the hardest-to-heat homes you may be eligible for a free new central heating boiler, insulation for a hot water cylinder, loft, cavity wall and solid wall insulation, draught proofing for doors and windows or renewable energy technologies such as solar panels.
This tiny Tribeca bar stages a Eugene O'Neill-worthy homage to the world of manual labour, with boiler room blueprints on the walls, carefully cultivated rust and Dark and Stormys on the drink card.
Jane: In Kilwinning in Ayrshire, George Meechan believes his boiler was in an appalling and dangerous condition after years of regular servicing by a Corgi-registered company.
It doesn't take Mr Tibble very long to find the source: "A lot of the heat down here is not just from the boiler, I would say 60-70% of the heat is from this, " he says, pointing at unclad pipes carrying hot water from the boiler.
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An 88-year-old man who was forced to wash in water boiled on a stove for weeks is to get a new boiler free of charge from his energy company.
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