21.   At the same time, each of the regional Bell telephone companies has major wireless operations in its traditional service area.

22.   Below ground are more moderately priced brands such as Bulova, Citizen and Seiko, a service area and a gallery tracing the development of timekeeping.

23.   Both have experience in selling gas to large industrial customers, a service area that has long been deregulated.

24.   -- Dropped consideration of a challenge to federal rules that barred regional Bell telephone companies from owning cable television systems in their service areas.

25.   A federal law requires utilities to buy power from small plants built in their service areas.

26.   A merger between Manhattan-based Nynex and Philadelphia-headquartered Bell Atlantic would leave one operating company covering a service area from Maine to West Virginia.

27.   Bryson expressed concern that companies may be buying such regulated assets with the expectation of leveraging them into the competitive market to gain a monopoly in certain service areas.

28.   By law, the Austin-based utility was not permitted to sell power out of its Central Texas service area.

29.   Calenergy had said that if it won control of the utility, it would quickly reduce rates for customers in the New York service area.

30.   Cable-TV companies are seeking to expand their service areas so the costs of marketing and new technology can be spread over bigger customer groups.