71.   Within two years, Massachusetts will let consumers pick power suppliers as they now do long-distance telephone companies.

72.   Within a few years, new laws are expected to let consumers choose their own power suppliers.

73.   Zytec, which makes custom electronic power suppliers for computers, gained after reporting stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings.

74.   Other assets include Con Edison Solutions and Select Energy, an unregulated power supplier that serves New York, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania.

75.   A spokesman for power supplier Integral Energy said extra crews had been recruited to help deal with thousands of homes blacked out by the storm.

76.   Abraham, appearing at a Senate hearing, said that any speculation of federal action could disrupt ongoing negotiations involving the state, utilities and power suppliers.

77.   But he said officials could not guarantee power suppliers would keep rates down.

78.   But lenders, bondholders and wholesale power suppliers may have to write off billions of dollars in losses.

79.   California appeared to have dodged yet another energy shock Wednesday when a judge stepped in to order a major power supplier to keep pumping electricity.

80.   California regulators headed back to court Wednesday to try to force major power suppliers to keep selling electricity to the energy-sapped state.