61.   New electricity distribution rates to be announced today or tomorrow are expected to show a steep drop on the current rates, further depressing electric utilities, analysts said.

62.   Newspapers reported that the government is considering raising electricity rates for the second time in less than three months.

63.   Officials in Oregon and Washington have complained that the emergency orders are draining scarce power from the Northwest, sharply raising electricity rates and threatening salmon recovery.

64.   Other analysts are concerned falling electricity rates and the recent drought will slash profits in the electricity industry.

65.   Other speakers asked the commissioners how they could purport to represent the public interest while at the same time raising electricity rates for the second time since January.

66.   Pataki campaigned for governor on a promise to cut electricity rates and stop the loss of jobs.

67.   Price competition in electricity rates will begin in earnest next year.

68.   --Raising electricity rates even higher.

69.   Raising electricity rates is a condition of a loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund.

70.   Regulators refused requests to raise electricity rates.