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Houston-Based Enron Vigorously Challenges Southern Co. across U.S., Abroad.(Originated from The Atlanta Journal and Constitution)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 1997 by Quinn, Matthew C.
HOUSTON--Nov. 24--To hear Jeffrey K. Skilling tell it, Southern Co. is a relic, a monopoly that wants to stifle any outside competition to Georgia Power Co. and its other electric utility businesses.
"If Thomas Alva Edison came back from the dead and called Southern Co. to get some electricity, he'd find that nothing has changed," said Skilling, president of Enron Corp., the nation's No. 1 gas and electricity marketing company.
"These guys are living in an industry that was created 100 years ago, and they want to keep it that way," Enron's second-in-command said in his wood-paneled 50th-floor office in downtown Houston.
Enron and Atlanta-based Southern increasingly may be locking horns as they position their businesses for...
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