The alleged intention was to coerce privatisation of the national oil company into the hands of the foreign investor group. |
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The privatisation of cultural expressions corresponds to the enclosure of public land in the fifteenth to eighteenth century. |
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The illegal industrial action was a protest against the growing trend of privatisation. |
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The privatisation roller coaster when everyone was encouraged to become a shareholder left many with irrecoverable losses. |
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Australia has been a world leader in the privatisation, outsourcing and corporatisation of the government sector over the past decade or so. |
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The government and the Indian elite welcome corporatisation and privatisation. |
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The legislation is aimed at corporatising the remaining state electricity boards and providing the legal framework for their privatisation. |
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Its election manifesto is replete with populist rhetoric opposing privatisation and defending the public sector. |
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The government's corporate crown jewels are also earmarked for privatisation. |
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More than seven million Egyptian pounds have been spent on updating it to prepare for privatisation. |
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The privatisation of state universities is galvanising students into action. |
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I don't think I particularly want to end up in a slanging match between privatisation and public ownership. |
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Somewhere between nationalisation and privatisation, the famous Third Way has now been discovered. |
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He remained vague over the issue of privatisation which occupied the national press last week. |
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Even so there were rumours he might become governor of the BBC and he was sounded out to head up the proposed privatisation of the railways. |
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So competition, privatisation, is not always able to deliver the nirvana that some people like to promise. |
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In relation to proposals about the privatisation of radar detection and speed traps, Mr. Kelly is also most forthright. |
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Hundreds of thousands of customers have been disconnected for non-payment of bills, something that was illegal before privatisation. |
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Homelessness services are creaking under the weight of numbers, cuts in funding and privatisation in health services. |
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This privatisation conflicted with the object of the exercise, which was to raise money by selling the lands. |
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Now the proliferation of public-private partnerships pushes us further down this track, towards privatisation by stealth. |
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In fact, bargain fare offers are one of the few real plusses from rail privatisation. |
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The oligarchs are greatly resented by large numbers of Russians who did not benefit from the privatisation of state property. |
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Nine unions called the latest stoppage in a long-standing protest by workers against privatisation plans. |
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We're calling on trade unionists, community groups and everyone opposed to privatisation to come and support it. |
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To appease the vocal opposition to the privatisation threat, the government tightened the provisions against extra billing and queue jumping. |
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Millions of people the world over have marched against war, privatisation, oppression and poverty. |
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State bank employees have been involved in continuous agitation against privatisation. |
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Pakistani university professors and lecturers held a national hunger strike on April 5 against education privatisation plans. |
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Moreover, trade union strongholds in the public sector are further threatened by ongoing privatisation. |
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We stand against privatisation of public services and against tuition fees. |
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The sale also went down in history as concluding the process of privatisation of Bulgaria's banks. |
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The economic order entailed privatisation of parastatals and restructuring of public service delivery. |
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The crisis that has emerged is symptomatic of New Labour's policy of increasing the privatisation of education. |
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They are about weakening the union and opening up the civil service for privatisation in the future. |
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City academies are a form of privatisation where the school has the status of a private school but receives public money. |
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There is a rising demand for rail travel, since privatisation six years ago. |
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In this era of liberalisation and privatisation, sport is an important instrument that needs to be professionally and proficiently marketed. |
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That can then lay the basis for future battles to begin rolling back privatisation and drive the profiteers out of public services. |
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You have to go a long way down the list to find a company that hasn't been floated in a privatisation or demutualisation. |
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One option was to make restructuring of the holding group part of the privatisation, which means that its denationalisation would be delayed. |
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Far from rolling back the state, privatisation institutionalises the corporate dependency culture. |
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Pay, working hours and conditions in the bus industry have become notorious since privatisation and deregulation. |
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There would have been no poll tax, race riots, rail privatisation and less industrial dereliction. |
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Parliament is not going to choose the buyers in the privatisation deals but just approve or disapprove the decision by the executive power. |
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There has been the privatisation of whole estates and a grab for land which is earmarked purely for luxury development. |
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We want to end privatisation and bring services back into public ownership. |
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Where it was once frozen in dirigisme under Edward Heath, it became respectable to call for privatisation and deregulation. |
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The protestors burnt effigies representing the demons of inflation and privatisation. |
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Its watchwords are free markets, privatisation, deregulation, flexibility, downsizing. |
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In South Africa, water privatisation has led to an increase in water-borne diseases. |
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Under privatisation, Bradford is being carved up and shared in deals and jobs for the boys. |
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Workers carried placards and banners, and raised slogans against privatisation and increases in electricity prices. |
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In part, this reflects the fact that such groups are benefiting from welfare privatisation. |
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On public sector privatisation and cuts in welfare benefits, Labour and the Tories are united. |
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The Thatcher government set out to rationalise Britain's state-run industries in preparation for privatisation. |
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In opposition, we were against the privatisation of air traffic control, then did the opposite in power. |
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When the Government first began to publicly promote its agenda for full privatisation in 1998 there was a rural uproar. |
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We oppose privatisation, and campaign for the renationalisation of the railways and other public services. |
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Repayment was handled via a swap of debt for equity in state-owned Bulgarian enterprises listed for privatisation. |
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The workers believe that complete privatisation of the bank will lead to mass layoffs. |
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A replacement of the airline's management on November 16 anteceded the expected announcement of the privatisation strategy. |
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There are a rising number of strikes taking place in the public sector, as workers revolt against low pay and privatisation. |
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The Lib Dem council then pursued an agenda of slashing services and accelerated privatisation. |
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Today, the privatisation of social services means that children are sacrificed for the sake of profit more than ever. |
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The workers plan to continue lunchtime protests and will wear black armbands at work to show they oppose privatisation. |
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Shares in district heating companies also changed hands, to mark the start of the privatisation of this segment of the Bulgarian energy sector. |
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The Foreign Ministry explained the move as a protective measure aimed at averting any failure of the privatisation procedure. |
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They are making a hash of the government's plan to get the state-owned corporation into shape for eventual privatisation. |
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It is a back door to privatisation and should be resisted by anyone who believes in the health service. |
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He agreed that the Government's attitude towards NHS dentistry was effectively back-door privatisation. |
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Hollowed-out governments were unwilling to question their own managerialist mantras and pushed privatisation as the only way. |
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As part of the deregulation and marketisation of the British state, privatisation has been part of a process of internationalising the economy. |
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It could also add enough momentum to finally bring New Labour's privatisation bandwagon to a grinding halt. |
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Workers have threatened further protests unless the restructuring and privatisation plans are withdrawn. |
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For a company like ABB, there was further potential arising from the privatisation of district heating. |
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Angry trade unionists berated candidates as privatisation of the rail industry swept on to the election stage. |
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Some delegates expressed anger over their union leaders' failure to call national, militant action over both privatisation and low pay. |
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In addition, privatisation without adequate competitive pressure creates the mistaken perception that competition does not work. |
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By rights there should be a reassessment of the whole epoch of privatisation and uncontrolled capitalism and a return to the mixed economy. |
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The big worry is that, by attacking pensions and sick pay, the government is preparing the civil service for privatisation. |
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It will be a supreme test of the virtues of public ownership over privatisation. |
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In reality, the effects of privatisation and subcontracting in community care has decimated the true potential of people that need support in the community. |
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His practical experience as a railwayman caused him to look with a more critical eye on railway administration both before and after privatisation. |
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Some are talking about this as privatisation through the back door. |
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The Manila water privatisation hasn't been an unmitigated success. |
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Campaigners argued the plan was a halfway house towards privatisation. |
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The operative word is fair, for soon the City might itself be experimenting with privatisation of water, with French multinational companies running the show. |
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Another field of interest shown by Milan's municipal companies was in gas distribution and the privatisation of thermoelectric power plants in Bulgaria. |
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But the need for demanding reservation in the private sector came as a result of large-scale privatisation of public sector units during their rule. |
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If this looks suspiciously like renationalisation by stealth, then at least this represents a positive move, considering the industry's poor record since privatisation. |
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The best solution is full-blooded, honest-to-God privatisation. |
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With privatisation of the major parastatal companies in the 1990s, the Government has no capacity to employ many graduates from the higher learning institutions. |
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If the strike goes ahead it will focus the feeling over speed-ups, harder working, the threat of up to 40,000 postal job losses and intensified privatisation. |
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The current legal provision that privatisation appraisals of foreign-trade companies are subject to approval by the finance minister will be revoked. |
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For the LNP, privatisation could be the love that dare not speak its name. |
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Pocket money, dole or reduced pension does not stretch to these luxuries, since privatisation for profit precludes travel to and cost of entrance to these simple pleasures. |
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But campaigners vowed the fight would go on to prevent the privatisation. |
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When members of the House were called to vote on the privatisation, the Liberal Member for Hume, Alby Schultz, abstained and refused to show, making sure the world knew why. |
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In the NHS, for example, vulture private firms now make a fortune from privatisation schemes, while nurses and other health workers suffer low pay and long working hours. |
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It became clear that despite the accusations of non-transparency and lobbyism, the current rulers can defend the interests of the taxpayer in the privatisation. |
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The single biggest problem with the privatisation programme is that the proceeds disappear into a black hole called the Consolidated Fund of India. |
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But unions representing the 1,500 workers at the service say they are deeply sceptical about the proposals and fear it is the thin end of the wedge in a privatisation drive. |
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Whilst privatisation proceeds apace and monopolies are being dismantled, there is clearly a long way to go before a market economy will truly exist here. |
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Since the fall of parastatal companies as a result of privatisation, the informal sector has played a very critical role as a source of livelihood in Zambia. |
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The privatisation of politics has also impacted on political elites. |
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The impact of privatisation has been debated by the public, media and the rail industry ever since the process was completed. |
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In theory, privatisation was meant to open up railway operations to the free market and encourage competition between multiple private companies. |
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In 2015, it released an editorial saying that again, despite some problems, privatisation has delivered many improvements. |
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Instead, it left the new structure in place, even completing the privatisation process with the last remaining sales. |
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In 1981 the airline was instructed to prepare for privatisation by the Conservative Thatcher government. |
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Another challenge within the water sector in Europe is privatisation and lobbyism in the water sector. |
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The first unique ScotRail livery was introduced shortly after privatisation under National Express, who introduced their own livery. |
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Ongoing privatisations lasted from the end of the 1970s, through the 1980s until 1990 with the privatisation of British Rail. |
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Channel 4 was considered for privatisation by the governments of Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair. |
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This has largely been attributed to the reduction in state benefits and a shift toward the privatisation of public services. |
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Following the privatisation of British Rail, the rights to run services on the line were put out to tender as a franchise. |
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Since the privatisation of British Rail there is no longer a single approach to design on railways in Great Britain. |
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Following independence, the government formed a legal framework for privatisation. |
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Since 1993, the country has followed a policy of privatisation of certain economic sectors which used to be in the hands of the government. |
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In 1977 the Free market economy was introduced to the country, incorporating privatisation, deregulation and the promotion of private enterprise. |
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During this period, a large share of the economy was returned to private sector ownership through divestment and privatisation programmes. |
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By 1986 there were calls for the full privatisation of the Forestry Commission and its estate. |
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A Britz campervan, for exploring the But following the railway's privatisation in the 1990s numbers quickly dwindled. |
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Cases being heard at Warwick Crown Court could be disrupted as workers stage a one-day strikeover job cuts, pay and privatisation. |
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The union will now press ahead with balloting its members for STRIKE action in protest LINKED to privatisation. |
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Disability nurse Noelene Williams found support from firies for our petition against privatisation. |
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Professor Allyson Pollock argued privatisation should be monitored to ensure the poor, the old and the sick do not lose out. |
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That decade also saw the privatisation of some traditional services, such as highway maintenance, cleaning and school meals. |
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Since privatisation, around 20 Train Operating Companies operate the passenger trains. |
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Installed as chairman in 1980, Sir John Egan is credited for Jaguar's unprecedented prosperity immediately after privatisation. |
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In the 1990s National Express moved into the privatisation of airports, purchasing East Midlands, Bournemouth, and Humberside Airports. |
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Arriva has operated a number of rail franchises in the UK since privatisation in 1996 though its subsidiary, Arriva UK Trains. |
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This has coincided with the privatisation of British Rail, but the effect of this is disputed. |
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The public image of rail travel was severely damaged by a series of significant accidents after privatisation. |
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The privatisation of public assets was combined with financial deregulation in an attempt to fuel economic growth. |
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Even though every former DR narrow gauge railway has undergone privatisation, the daily steam operations are still commonplace there. |
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The privatisation, proposed by the Conservative government in 1992, was opposed by the Labour Party and the rail unions. |
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Under the process of British Rail's privatisation, operations were split into more than 100 companies. |
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Various interested parties also have views on the privatisation of British Rail. |
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The public was unconvinced of the virtues of rail privatisation and there was much lobbying against the Bill. |
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The impact of the privatisation of British Rail in the 1990s has been the subject of much debate, which has continued to the present day. |
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Since privatisation, three of the original large railway boats are operated by Windermere Lake Cruises Ltd, along with a fleet of smaller and more modern launches. |
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The policy of privatisation, while anathema to many on the left, has become synonymous with Thatcherism and was also followed by Tony Blair's government. |
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Some of the privatised industries, including gas, water, and electricity, were natural monopolies for which privatisation involved little increase in competition. |
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Although Labour initially proposed to reverse privatisation, the New Labour manifesto of 1997 instead opposed Conservative plans to privatise the London Underground. |
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The privatisation was controversial, and the its impact is still debated today, as doubling of passenger numbers and investment were balanced by an increase in rail subsidy. |
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Opponents say this was privatisation by the back door, though some services had already been contracted out, such as cleaning of stations and ticket inspections. |
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Sectorisation was generally regarded within the industry as a great success, and it was to have a considerable effect on the way in which privatisation would be carried out. |
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In the same year, changes to the British Transport Commission, including the privatisation of road haulage, ended the coordination of transport in Great Britain. |
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In preparation for full privatisation, BR was split up into various parts. |
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Foster care privatisation is emerging as an increasingly popular policy option, with proponents arguing that the private foster care agency is superior to the public one. |
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The positive connotation is the contribution the results of privatisation would make to Indonesia's image as a good debitor, paying overseas debts according to schedule. |
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Agreement has been reached on the privatisation of several more enterprises in coming years, with hopes that this will stimulate much needed foreign investment. |
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Authorities have been slow to implement reforms in the civil service, and the pace of the privatisation programme is also slackening and donors have urged its advancement. |
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Other reasons that have been suggested for these services having never been run were both government policies and the disruptive privatisation of British Rail. |
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We are totally opposed to the creeping privatisation of these services which NuLab has indicated it will commence once this election is safely out of the way. |
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Many social democratic parties, particularly after the Cold War, adopted neoliberal market policies including privatisation, deregulation and financialisation. |
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Some island and union groups opposed the tendering process, fearing it would lead to cuts in services and could be a prelude to full privatisation. |
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The impact of the privatisation of British Rail is much debated today, with increased passenger numbers and better safety offset by concerns about the cost to taxpayers. |
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After almost 13 years as a state company, British Airways was privatised in February 1987 as part of a wider privatisation plan by the Conservative government. |
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One of the principal expectations from privatisation was that the railway service could be delivered more efficiently in the private sector because of the profit motive. |
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The promoters of privatisation expected that the ROSCOs would compete against each other to provide the TOCs with the rolling stock they required. |
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The breakdown of the Carolingian Empire led to the privatisation of government, and local lords assumed responsibility for the economy and justice. |
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However, there has been much criticism and protest about the 2010 government's actions on the NHS, focussing on budget cuts and privatisation of services. |
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Domestically, she is best known for her sweeping policies concerning the affairs of the economy, including the privatisation of most nationalised industries. |
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