11.   It would also allow states to let companies charge customers for some costs they incurred as a regulated monopoly.

12.   Long run as regulated monopolies, utilities used to have guaranteed recovery of almost all costs.

13.   Nevertheless, most industry executives see their regulated monopolies eroding and are searching widely for merger partners.

14.   Nor would it inhibit the push for municipal electricity companies able to bypass the regulated monopolies.

15.   Once content to tend their regulated monopoly franchises, utilities and railroads are suddenly conducting their own raucous hostile battles in the wake of deregulation and consolidation.

16.   Only local utilities, which are regulated monopolies, can sell gas and electricity sales to U.S. consumers now, though sales to the utilities themselves are deregulated.

17.   Only local utilities, which are regulated monopolies, can sell gas and electricity to most U.S. consumers now, though sales to the utilities themselves are deregulated.

18.   Such a hodgepodge existed until Ma Bell came on the scene as a regulated monopoly.

19.   The bills would also limit the percentages of cable service that a phone company with a regulated monopoly could hold.

20.   The new Democratic view is to replace the old regime of regulated monopoly with a new paradigm of sound, pro-competitive economics.