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All of the companies were privatized in the last three years.

In the next few years, more than 8,000 former state companies are to be privatized.

By 2002, he said the government would privatize the company.

"But at least for the first time, we have an administration with the political will to privatize."

After the 1989 move by the government to open up the economy, the movie industry was privatized.

Starting in 1994 many former state oil companies were privatized.

Could this be another example of the pressure to privatize?

He is an important figure in the debate on privatizing the economy.

"Everything has to be privatized or we will remain lost."

Each of these companies would be privatized in April 2007.

In 1992, the company was privatized by way of a management buy out.

How can he be privatizing education when it is free at the point of use?

In this new state, the Government is privatized, having to do work only within its budget.

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

"Already, many of these companies are talking about privatizing, as I did five and seven years ago."

In the late 90s some of its shares were privatized.

The three schools to be privatized have one thing in common: failure.

Efforts to privatize industry and set up a stock market will come later.

"I thought things were supposed to work better because they privatized it," he said.

Only 690 employees work there, down from 1,350 at the time the company was privatized.

The agreement did not cover the government's plan to privatize the system.

But, he added, the pressure to privatize will continue to be strong.

Recently it has been broken up, with many new companies being privatized.

A law on privatizing large companies has yet to be adopted.

Prisoners also work in food service, which was privatized several years ago.

Between 1997 and 2000 the state tried to privatise the company several times.

Best make sure they know how to privatise them I'd say.

I would privatise the education system and leave it to market forces.

It was not the Commission which took the decision to privatise the company.

Obviously the Commission does not have the power to privatise.

However, the Government has no intention to privatise health care.

The Government would like to privatise tracks as well, but has put this off until some point in the future.

What will we live on when the oil revenues have all gone and there is nothing left to privatise?

If this is not the case, then Greece needs to make it, rather than privatise.

Several major capital works are currently under construction in an effort to privatise the nation's water.

We cannot privatise people who were not there before.

It is simply a plan to privatise health care.

He claimed that the government was not going to privatise the ports.

Logically you'd think they'd do the opposite, and privatise all the schools.

There are already calls to privatise land in order to manage it better and more fairly.

Why do you think there is so much pressure to privatise the public sector pensions?

The Conservatives had already begun to privatise other state industries.

In 1991 the British government decided to privatise the country's railways.

It is well known that the Government have received an offer to privatise search and rescue services.

A bill to privatise the agency received its second reading in the Commons yesterday.

' I do not believe that the Government's intention is, or ever has been, to privatise the health service.

Alas, the government is about to privatise it so I am the last generation to benefit.

The Nationalist Government wants to privatise them at all costs.

He says that the Government want to privatise prisons - but this won't provide a better service.

Unfortunately, it's more cost effective to privatise our work.