Even officials of the World Water Council, the organization that runs the forum and is heavily weighted toward multinational water companies, appear to be giving up on wholesale privatization.

Economist , Sept. 13 (posted Saturday, Sept. 13) The cover editorial and article on China's economic future recommend wholesale privatization.

The government's goal is not a wholesale privatization of the arts, as its critics claim.

Both wholesale and partial privatization pose questions such as: 1) How much added risk will workers bear compared to the risks they face under current system?

While the Soviet leader has gradually begun to break down the taboo against private ownership of farms and businesses, for example, Yeltsin has accepted wholesale privatization as the cornerstone of a new economy.

Within the Administration Mr. Raines has been a strong voice for maintaining a social safety net for working families, most recently staking out a position against any wholesale privatization of Social Security.

It acted as advisor to the central government and to most regional utility companies in the process that lead to the wholesale privatization and concentration of the sector.

Venezuela Unlike Argentina's wholesale privatization, Venezuela offers what will most likely be the oil policy prototype for Latin America in the 90's - foreign companies nibbling at the edges of a state monopoly.

Not in the eyes of the Port Authority, which opposes wholesale privatization, even though it has handed over many smaller functions to private operators.

Thus the way to rebuild confidence in the economy (and Mr. Bush), the supply-siders say, is through dramatic initiatives - Government layoffs, a spending freeze and wholesale privatization.