reprivatize

Nor did it reprivatize banks or give Esso back its piece of the national oil company.

Use the bailout money instead to nationalize (and ultimately reprivatize) the useful retail bits of the larger banks, paying a fair price for them.

"We're just going backwards," Hetty Rosenstein, Local 1037's executive vice president, said of the plan to reprivatize the 25 offices.

But beyond complying with international human rights standards, as you suggest, Nigeria should privatize its ailing industries and reprivatize those that it nationalized during the 1970's, driving away foreign investors.

Those are exactly the kinds of actions that ordinarily dismay free-market advocates, but Mr. Schroder invariably found quick ways to reprivatize the companies and sometimes even to make a profit on the resale.

President Carlos Salinas de Gortari sent the Mexican Congress a constitutional amendment today that would reprivatize the country's banking system, which has been in state hands since 1982, and allow private interests to set up new financial institutions.

Forty years later, a state effort to reprivatize such land has made Gharb al Banawaan a symbol of a looming conflict between hundreds of thousands of peasants and the Government of President Hosni Mubarak.

We behave as if the public place belonged to nobody. . . . Maybe only now, after the political changes in eastern Europe, we will have a chance to repossess our cities, reprivatize them, treat them as if they are not merely places we are sentenced to be in or which we only pass through.