41.  Chiyo falls in love with the chairman of a giant electric company, but he remains aloof from her.

42.  Companies less than five years old were excluded, as were financial services, real estate and electric utility companies.

43.  Competition is expected to spur more of the combinations of natural gas and electric companies.

44.  Contractors, real estate and electric companies have showed the largest declines in machinery orders this year.

45.  Consider Yvonne, the part-time financial analyst at an electric utility company who says that maintaining her social networks was one of the biggest factors in her success.

46.  Construction, real estate and electric companies showed the largest declines in recent months as spending on housing declined after the tax increase.

47.  Construction, real estate and electric companies showed the largest declines in recent months as spending on housing declined before the tax increase.

48.  Deregulation of electric companies in California in recent years forced many private utilities to sell generation facilities and to buy power on the spot market instead.

49.  Dlouhy said the government will consider the proposal in September as a way of helping state-controlled electric company CEZ AS finance its long-term investment needs.

50.  Deregulation was also behind these mergers as electric companies are now allowed to join with natural gas providers.