Could we not pay our senior professors an enormous amount, to increase a person's lifetime utility package (to coin a phrase) enough to draw in far-sighted youngsters?

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In turn, the utility can offer its ratepayers a package of some two dozen consumer services, including Internet access, appliance protection, satellite television, long-distance telephone service, carbon-monoxide protection and security.

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It would also have included direct debits in the package, allowing a company or utility in one euro country to draw funds directly from a customer's bank account in another.

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It tried to force utilities to increase production of renewable energy in the face of fierce opposition by the utility industry group, and it included a tax package that the White House has long indicated it would not support.

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Mr Alexander's new pay package was approved by Thames Water's parent company, German utility giant RWE.

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