71.  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.

72.  Digital was acquired last year by Compaq Computer Corp., while Lang, after a brief stint as chief executive of Internet utility company Etility.com, came to NewsPage.

73.  Despite the outages, both utility companies reported record power usage.

74.  Duke is a utility company based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

75.  Earlier this month, it formed a joint venture that will make it among the first electric utility companies to challenge Baby Bells for telephone customers.

76.  Electricity sales had for decades been the job of local utility companies, operating as monopolies and selling power at regulated rates within their service areas.

77.  Elsewhere in the nation, nuclear power is less of an issue and the prospect of restructuring is leading to utility company mergers to achieve savings and survival.

78.  Energy Group PLC, a British utility company, said Tuesday that it was in merger talks with Pacificorp, a West Cost power company.

79.  Even if the utility law is repealed, state-level regulators could still pose an obstacle to the formation of national utility companies.

80.  Even so, a utility company or a company that needs electricity still has to find another reason to justify the expense of fuel cells.