21.  Both telephone and electric companies want freer reign over their own prices and costs, and most lawmakers want to open these traditional monopolies to competition.

22.  -- Electric utility companies could begin offering phone service, as long as they do so through a separate subsidiary.

23.  -- Let electric utility companies begin offering phone service, as long as they do so through a separate subsidiary.

24.  --A Canadian electric utility company will demonstrate a device designed to achieve higher efficiency in electric cars by making the motor part of the wheel.

25.  A friend who was once a baker has taken a six-month leave from his job at the electric company to teach the trade.

26.  A move to deregulate power sales to consumers is driving U.S. electric companies to get bigger.

27.  According to Czech press reports, Mertlik resigned after losing another battle on Monday over privatizing the state-owned gas and electric companies.

28.  AES Corp. led a group of companies that won the bidding for two of three electricity companies being sold by Eseba, the Buenos Aires provincial electric company.

29.  After enlisting during World War II, he moved to California and hosted an audience participation radio program for the electric company, Southern California Edison.

30.  After the initial shock had passed, the folks at C. Talanian Realty on Newbury Street had a little chuckle about the bill they received from the electric company.