11.   Electric utilities are buying natural gas companies to lower their production costs and expand into new regions as the electricity market is deregulated over the next few years.

12.   Electric utilities are buying natural gas companies to lower their production costs and expand into new regions as the U.S. electricity market is deregulated over the next few years.

13.   Electric utilities are buying natural gas companies to lower production costs and expand into new regions as the U.S. electricity market is deregulated over the next few years.

14.   Faced with uncertainties as their home markets are deregulated as well as the prospect of better returns elsewhere, U.S. power companies are trying to become global competitors.

15.   Fines and criminal sentences will hurt Nomura as it tries to negotiate the best deal for the brokerage industry while Japan plans how to deregulate its markets.

16.   Hashimoto especially emphasized the need to deregulate financial markets.

17.   However, analysts say Asian countries will be slow to deregulate satellite markets.

18.   In other cases, cross-subsidies must be reshaped as Congress deregulates a market.

19.   In those cases, Enron forecast when the states would deregulate those markets and then projected what prices would be under the currently nonexistent deregulated market.

20.   It needs all its prestige to make a good deal for itself and other brokers when Japan deregulates its financial markets over the next few years.