They were a big victory for those who sought utility-style regulation, which would prohibit cable and telephone companies from speeding up, slowing down, or blocking Web traffic.
Irbit found salvation in an unlikely niche market: older American riders seeking utility, not thrills or spills.
Research seeks truth, whereas development seeks utility.
For example, Jones claims that our schools ought to emphasize the humanities because "'To seek utility everywhere is entirely unsuited to men that are great-souled and free' as Aristotle so wisely says" (1944, 125).
A consumer advocates group filed a complaint Friday with the state's ethics agency seeking an investigation into whether a top aide to Gov. Jerry Brown influenced appointments to the state Public Utilities Commission while she owned stock in Pacific Gas & Electric Co., which was seeking utility-friendly decisions.
On top of that the sought for utility can itself feel pointless — with, for example, content previews that can be horribly slow to load, so why not just tap and look at the email in the first place?
The ability to store electricity at an affordable price is the treasure sought by utility engineers and financial wizards.
In an effort outfox bribe-seeking utility officials, the Swedes began renting diesel generators to power Ikea stores so that the malls could never be shut off during negotiations.
For the moment, facilities that gasify coal to make it cleaner are not widely in operation, and in spite of the many permits being sought by utilities to build nuclear plants (if they wish to do so), no one has come forth with a proposal to actually build one.
The monkeys were risk seeking (convex utility function) for low reward and risk avoiding (concave utility function) with higher amounts.
On its Web site, however, the utility sought to carve out nearly one-fourth of the total, roughly 17,500 customers, who the utility contended were "currently unable to safely receive power without customer repairs".
