31.   Huge bankruptcies like those of the energy trader Enron and the telecom carrier Global Crossing have sharpened the atmosphere further.

32.   In a round-trip trade, two energy traders sell roughly the same amount of power back and forth to each other at the same price.

33.   In the end, the Williams Cos., an energy trader and pipeline operator, won control of Barrett.

34.   In Tulsa, energy trader Williams enjoyed considerably less anxiety after posting a huge leap in fourth-quarter profit.

35.   It will be the largest energy trader in the United States, trading more than twice as much power and natural gas as its closest competitors.

36.   It will have to regain the confidence of other energy traders.

37.   Large energy traders said Tuesday that they are still doing business with Enron, though they continue to watch the situation very closely.

38.   Lower prices now Wholesale prices have declined over the last two weeks as fears among energy traders eased about insufficient gas supplies this winter.

39.   Members met with executives from Enron Corp., the giant energy trader whose collapse cost thousands of employees their retirement savings.

40.   Moreover, it was never easy for rough-and-tumble energy traders to convince large telecommunications concerns that they should agree to make a commodity of their core offering.