In the few hours between his speech and the giant utility's announcement, Mr. Davis found time to attend a campaign fund-raiser in La Jolla.

But the company contends its performance is by and large no better or worse than other giant utilities.

A14 Imports of South African uranium by Japan's giant utilities will end, they announced.

The first offering, in 1984, was British Telecommunications, a giant utility.

Dutch farmers charge that a giant German utility is sucking away the water from underground streams and springs.

In the past decade, the giant utility has put hundreds of female, black, Hispanic and Asian workers into jobs that were once the exclusive domain of white men.

The tax law exempted the state's giant regional utilities, which own most of the major gas-fired power plants and produce most of the state's electricity.

Not only cellular telephones emit such fields, but also electric hair dryers, microwave ovens and the overhead transmission lines of giant electric utilities.

The most actively sought partners have been Germany's giant utilities.

Mr. Kurinsky said a 100-year bond could be attractive because the giant utility is a quasi-government agency and that means there is almost no credit risk.