This Broadway soprano and comic actress is an all-around entertainer who exudes a madcap exuberance that can spread like electricity through an audience.
Unsurprisingly, the loss of one-third of electricity generation in Japan is leading to massive changes in energy supply and demand, including the weekend and night operation of factories to spread the electricity load, much less use of air conditioning and the greater use of fossil fuel plants.
Otherwise you not only risk electrocution, but also spreading around the electricity, which can spread the fire much more quickly.
Almost equally important, fast-spreading electricity made a host of new household appliances available.
More than half the houses have running water, and electricity is spreading.
And the deal making is spreading into industries, like electricity and power, that used to be the sole preserve of national governments.
Spencer Abraham, the federal energy secretary, rejected a plea from several Western governors today for the federal government to impose temporary price caps on wholesale electricity, after listening to their concerns that "exorbitant" and "out-of-control" electricity costs were spreading economic havoc across the region.
Thomas & Betts was founded in 1898 and grew as the use of electricity spread across the country.
To this day I can feel the electricity spread through the audience from the blend of Western rock, church chants and a daring theme of Russian-American romance.
Most of the financial benefit to producers, they say, will come from spreading fixed overhead costs, like electricity, over a wider product base.
Turning your washing machine and dishwasher on before you go to bed therefore shaves a little off your carbon footprint by "spreading the load" on the electricity grid – though the difference isn't as huge as some websites have claimed.
