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public utility

noun as in government-run public service

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Pasquale Esposito worked for the city for more than 30 years, retiring in 2009 as a coordinator of public utilities, according to city records.

At least one 2015 paper suggested public utilities are worse at complying with important regulations and maintaining infrastructure because they operate at the pleasure of the voter.

Typically, he said, a public utility commission would determine whether a proposed project should move forward.

It is the technical solution to the systemic problems Big Tech has created with its monopoly over the internet, a public utility that should be completely open — bringing back the concept of the programmable web.

What it doesn’t include is a right for the city to buy SDG&E’s equipment should it want to form its own public utility.

We have a provision in our Constitution like this: the use of water for irrigation and the like shall forever be a public utility.

You can judge better than I whether it will be of any public utility to lay them before Congress.

I have written in the greatest haste upon a subject, which I hope your Excellency will turn to public utility.

I lament to see qualities, rare and valuable, squandered away without any public utility.

Such a regulation, however, was founded purely on considerations of public utility.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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