51.   Polk expanded on why the room is subject to rolling blackouts even when the lights and VCR and refrigerator are whirring.

52.   Prices have been skyrocketing this year because of severe shortages, and the system has been barely fending off rolling blackouts, which loomed here again Wednesday afternoon.

53.   Roger Salazar, a spokesman for Davis, said the governor was compelled to issue the order because of the likelihood of rolling blackouts.

54.   Rolling blackouts in the state this week were attributed in part to alternative energy providers going off line because they have not been paid.

55.   Short supplies resulted in rolling blackouts, stringent conservation programs and even pleas to turn out Christmas holiday lights.

56.   Similarly, it is universally acknowledged that supply shortages drove wholesale electricity prices through the roof and forced the state to implement rolling blackouts.

57.   Southern California went on the blink for the second straight day Tuesday as blistering temperatures and rumbling air conditioners prompted rolling blackouts.

58.   State regulators insist that New York will not see anything quite like the disaster in California, where utilities are threatening bankruptcy and there have been rolling blackouts.

59.   Soon he would be leaving this world of rolling blackouts and uniformed soldiers and black-market pork.

60.   Still, the state was on the verge of imposing rolling blackouts of homes and businesses.