51.  Nor did they use them to pay their telephone or electricity bills, services essential to maintaining their operation.

52.  Over that time, the pressure for them to evacuate waned, perhaps in official recognition of the essential service they were providing.

53.  She said a typical caller is an elderly person just released from a hospital after surgery who needs home care or some other essential service.

54.  Telephone companies and other utilities were doing their best to reassure an anxious public there would be no disruptions in essential services.

55.  Supporters said legal aid is an essential service for those who could not otherwise afford legal counseling.

56.  The abrupt withdrawal of Indonesian civil servants left East Timor without police, teachers and other essential services.

57.  The army has been put on standby to deliver fuel to essential services, such as hospitals, if needed.

58.  The courts will assure that essential services are delivered until the county figures out a way to refinance its debts at less than extortionate rates.

59.  The government has complained that guards have broken the essential services agreement by keeping prisoners cellbound.

60.  The Haitian people are suffering the result, in the form of erratic telephone service, electricity and other essential services.