1.   - KLT, which would oversee other unregulated businesses, including a fiberoptic network and the development of natural gas fields.

2.   Adding natural gas assets would back up its growing U.S. wholesale energy marketing arm as Southern expands into unregulated utility businesses around the country and abroad.

3.   But in the largely unregulated cosmetic business, some physicians are performing plastic or cosmetic surgery who received their formal training in another specialty.

4.   Consumer advocates have long complained that the California utilities use too much of their profit to fund the unregulated businesses.

5.   New endeavors also include unregulated businesses, such as the division that concentrates on communications and may eventually include data transmission via electric lines.

6.   Profit from unregulated businesses is not broken out by BT, but it is understood to be growing faster than regulated profit.

7.   The acquisition is aimed at giving Williams more of a stake in unregulated businesses where the growth and returns are higher.

8.   The government contended that the telephone colossus was illegally stifling competition, using regulator-sanctioned profits to subsidize unregulated businesses, like the making of equipment.

9.   Consumer activists believe the money shifted from the utilities to the unregulated businesses should be factored into a proposed ratepayer-backed bailout under consideration in the Legislature.

10.   Western wants to separate KPL and KGE from its unregulated business interests, now held by a subsidiary, Westar Industries.