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In France, recent problems emerged regarding the privatising of water supply companies.

We are not talking about privatising the rail network.

We'll end up yet again with the privatising of profits and socialising of losses.

It may seem tame stuff after helping out in the privatising of British Airways.

They will have to fend for themselves, because governments will not have the money, after privatising their nations’ resources, to satisfy large corporate interests.

Seems like a good Tory method for privatising the NHS through the back (social care) door!

When privatising electricity, the Government 'rigged' the energy market by giving a hugh share of the coal business to more expensive gas, and heavily subsidised nuclear plants.

He followed the neo-liberal economic model of President Carlos Menem, including privatising the provincial bank of which his own grandfather had been a founder.

After the war it was used by several GDR ministries and in 1990, quite ironically, became the seat of the agency charged with privatising East German companies and property.

The book Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention Since the 1980s by Chin-Tao Wu was published in 2001 in New York.

By privatising overgrown nationalised industries and selling council houses, Mrs Thatcher got away with reducing the size of the state without having to resort to cutting too many public services or welfare payments.

Progress toward privatizing industry is less likely than a year ago.

Probably not, because the president preferred to focus all attention on privatizing Social Security.

He reeled off areas where Iran's economy needed to improve, including privatizing industry, attracting foreign investment and upgrading technology.

The use of neoliberal privatizing regimes has also often raised contradictions with the rights of indigenous communities.

The next step in the plan was to concentrate on privatizing large industrial enterprises and closing chronically inefficient ones, thus adding to unemployment.

Everyone who followed the debate about privatizing Social Security back in 2005 has vivid memories of the Chilean model.

The program calls for privatizing most of Peru's 200 state companies and for phasing out subsidies, tariffs and price controls.

The Congressional Budget Office analysis also likely understates the costs to individuals of privatizing Social Security.

A majority in the Parliament prefer a go-slow approach to privatizing land and ending subsidies for industrial dinosaurs - and for good reason.

There need to be more serious cultural changes, and Congress is likely to get much more serious about privatizing Fannie Mae."

"Already the county is heavily leveraged by using its property as collateral or privatizing its properties," Ms. Bebitch-Jeffe said.

Mr. Adamson of United Space is upbeat about commercialization and the prospect of completely privatizing the shuttle effort.

The auction process has run into an unexpected surge of opposition from political leaders and business executives, who argue that privatizing the company is not necessary, given its profits.

The Thaksin government reduced the state's control of the media by privatizing MCOT, a large television and radio broadcaster.

According to Czech press reports, Mr. Mertlik resigned after losing another battle on Monday over privatizing the state-owned gas and electric companies.

Inefficient state-owned electricity and oil monopolies are in dire need of billions of dollars of investment to expand capacity, but privatizing them is not politically feasible.

The organization claims that privatizing American schools will decrease education spending, promote accountability in school administration, and permit parents a greater degree of control over the schools their children attend.

Mr. Pataki can therefore compromise while still claiming a victory of principle and then turn to the job of privatizing state services and finding other ways to cut costs.

In an apartment murder, old people are pressed into privatizing their apartments and signing them over to strangers, sometimes in return for a promised new apartment in the suburbs.

The Pele Defense Fund, however, sued, arguing that privatizing Wao Kele would end traditional hunting and gathering by native Hawaiians.

Her promotions for the party's bus tour in the 1985 Quebec provincial election were noted in the media, and she articulated her party's opposition to privatizing state enterprises.

To the Editor: Anthony Ramirez is entirely too sanguine about the future of the private prison industry ("Privatizing America's Prisons, Slowly," Aug. 14).

James Nelson, an assistant secretary of state in Mississippi, had a three-month sabbatical in 1993 in Hungary, where he assisted the country in privatizing Government-owned property.

Executives at Korea Telecom were optimistic about completing the process of privatizing Korea Telecom by the end of the month despite the possibility of union opposition.

She entrusted to him a central goal of her administration when she became Prime Minister in 1979, transforming British industry by privatizing state-owned companies and diminishing the power of unions.