11.  Another new wrinkle could have electric companies, like long-distance providers, offering lower rates at off-peak hours, when it is cheaper for them to supply power.

12.  Anyone seen the bill from the electric company?

13.  Arab citizens do not serve in the army and they are rarely hired in so-called sensitive industries such as the electric company.

14.  As with the electric companies, phone executives say there is nothing about the phone network itself that is date-reliant.

15.  At that time, there will be many electric companies competing for the same dollar.

16.  At least the electric company ought to be happy.

17.  At this stage, no electric company advocating deregulation can guarantee that small commercial or residential consumers would not see their electric bills increase.

18.  Attorney General Bob Butterworth jokingly proposed having the electric company forward the rebate directly to the phone company, thus cutting out the middleman.

19.  Beachgoers, along with electric company executives and air-conditioning salesmen, may have cursed their thermometers, but not everyone has been unhappy.

20.  Because of its good management and growing Texas and Missouri operations, Southern Union is probably a target for a buyout bid from an electric company, he said.