Millions of jobs were destroyed in America by deregulation.
At the time, the old-line gas companies were being hammered by deregulation.
The transaction comes amid rampant consolidation in the energy sector, sparked by deregulation of the industry.
The current problem, Mr. Haffey said, "wasn't caused by deregulation," but rather by "a dysfunctional market".
For consumers, the competition created by deregulation has kept a lid on electricity prices.
As a Californian, I appreciated Paul Krugman's Aug. 19 column about the energy distribution crisis created by deregulation.
"Today small firms face barriers erected by deregulation and consolidation in both wireless and broadcast," one of the studies said.
The financial system, they insisted, had been made more resilient by deregulation, technological innovation and the globalization of capital flows.
With the founding of the Premier League this Lego village of small-scale concerns was all but swept away by deregulation from the skies.
A RISE in telecommunications competition spawned by deregulation is emerging as a culprit in last month's knotty Suffolk County transition from the 516 area code to 631.
A desperate Gov. Gray Davis has now asked his legislature to approve a state-run scheme that seems the reverse of the free market promised by deregulation.
