81.   This wholesale market, developed largely in the last five years, is considered a model for a more competitive, deregulated market.

82.   To encourage competition in electricity generation, utilities were required to sell their power plants and instead buy electricity from independent generators in new wholesale markets.

83.   Traders in the futures and wholesale markets have been worried about supplies of natural gas.

84.   Utilities across the region are at least considering how to increase capacity because of the growing demand and the behavior of the wholesale markets.

85.   Western, for its part, has pushed federal regulators to investigate the wholesale market, including the recent price spikes.

86.   Whatever the reason for the shortages and price swings, the role of wholesale markets will be scrutinized in the coming months.

87.   Wholesale markets are expected to pick up later this year as Japan increases purchases of U.S. pork to make up for the loss of Taiwan imports, traders said.

88.   Perlis Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim was visibly pleased when announcing the launch of the wholesale market.

89.   - Israel will reopen a major downtown thoroughfare and a wholesale market which had been closed as a security precaution by Israel.

90.   A salesman in a turban sits beside plump sacks of spices at Khari Baoli, a huge, bustling wholesale market that draws produce from all over India.