| Attracted by his free market policies and the rich pickings to be made from privatised industries, foreign capital poured into the country. |
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| Camtel, the fixed line operator, was privatised in 2000, while Camtel Mobile remains in public ownership. |
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| The remainder is sold through western-style supermarkets, hypermarkets and privatised local stores called Gastronom or Producty. |
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| Have you noticed how everyone smiles more since I privatised the dental service? |
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| He defended management-employee buyouts, which became controversial after being used to drain privatised companies. |
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| The short answer is that although the industry was privatised it was not given its freedom. |
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| The charges are a sweetener for big business to move into privatised waste collection. |
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| It is now 12 years since our rail system was disastrously privatised and allowed to run down. |
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| The now privatised Zambian mines have recently been recapitalised by the new owners Anglo-American Corporation. |
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| They want to use the privatised services in Westminster as a base to bid for contracts in other councils. |
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| This means that a privatised health care system would unfairly penalise women. |
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| What's more, privatised childcare is a potential source of profit for capitalists. |
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| Scotland's water is now regarded as a new profit bonanza for the collapsing privatised English water companies. |
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| Might, say, a privatised water company in Sao Paulo be renationalised by a left-wing regime? |
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| Many of Egypt's state-run industries have been privatised, while the country's welfare and education systems have been run down. |
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| They now seem to resemble an unscrupulously privatised enterprise that was formerly a monopolist on the domestic market. |
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| It has come right in the case of the fruit industry, but that industry is largely privatised. |
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| Increasing numbers of privatised water schemes are linked to ventures to abstract more water through vast dams and reservoirs. |
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| Even down south it is not, in that sense, a truly privatised industry, because it is not truly free. |
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| As its reward, the union was granted coverage of the workers in the newly privatised industry. |
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| They are on the boards of banks and industrial firms and privatised service providers and many more. |
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| Most people in cities now buy water while others use bottled mineral water, so water has already been privatised, they argue. |
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| While privatised industry has its merits, I feel Primeco should not take over the local post office. |
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| Tariffs have been slashed, banks and pensions privatised, and maquiladora zones set up. |
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| The boss of Bradford's privatised education service has reaffirmed its commitment to the district after a year-long behind-the-scenes wrangle over cash. |
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| In addition they point out that ABX is on the verge of being privatised and that the work done to this end should not be undone. |
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| Ironically, large state enterprises had to be renationalised before they could be privatised, and, even then, the gradual neoclassical approach was not gradual. |
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| Whereas the speculator's profits were once privatised, now the losses are being socialised, and private debt is being replaced with public debt. |
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| There was also deep anger at reports that colleges might be privatised. |
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| Bodies like the Property Services Agency, the Common Services Agency and others, which were seen as out-dated and ossified, were gradually cleared out and then privatised. |
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| The road haulage industry has been liberalised, privatised and deregulated rapidly. |
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| The pension scheme is a honeypot for the privatised firms now running the rail industry, which each got a slice of the fund when the industry was broken up. |
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| None of the world's car companies, to which the stake to be privatised has been quietly hawked, is much interested. |
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| Another retorted that if a state-owned railway company reached such efficiency, then she could no longer see any need to have it privatised. |
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| And in what way can the contemplatives, religious leaders and educators of our time help to build this bridge from privatised piety to public moral responsibility. |
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| Announcing in a clipped voice that you'll be out of our hair just as soon as you've privatised the NHS, terribly sorry for any inconvenience. |
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| As for the second sector, the Ministry of Transport considers that the transport sector providing public services must be carefully privatised. |
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| Today, Tunisia has six cement works, four of which are privatised and are undergoing improvements. |
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| It has been legally possible for anyone to purchase land since 1991, but in practice very little of the total land available has been privatised. |
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| Improving terms and conditions of employment will improve the quality of services and prevent them from being privatised or contracted out. |
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| If it were well-run and privatised, it would bring the country more benefits than nuclear energy. |
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| When our canteens were privatised a few years ago, there was some discussion as to how to use the pre-privatisation profits. |
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| Amenities such as libraries, parks, swimming baths, sports facilities, youth clubs and community centres will either be privatised or disappear. |
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| Virtually all remaining enterprises can now be privatised, including the large shipping company and the energy utilities. |
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| Regarding the gas sector, two distributors, formerly owned and operated by BOTAS, have been privatised under the Natural Gas Market Law. |
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| But he concedes that surliness endures, even among waiters and waitresses who grew up in the privatised, post-Soviet years. |
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| It was symptomatic of what has prevailed in the power industry nationally since it was either corporatised or privatised, allowing market forces to dominate. |
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| The premier approved a controversial plan by transport secretary Stephen Byers to take Railtrack, the privatised national rail operator, into administration. |
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| In Orissa, the state electricity board was corporatised in 1995 with backing of the World Bank, then split into four subsidiaries, which were then privatised. |
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| They have made obscene profits since they were privatised by the Tories. |
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| The present depot at Soho is a product of the privatised railway. |
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| It should therefore be enshrined in the constitution that government should always retain a golden share in all privatised institutions which in turn will give it veto powers. |
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| He just resented giving it to the shareholders of privatised monopolies. |
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| It holds out the prospect of transcending the limits of privatised existence, of being known to the general public and of becoming part of society's collective experience. |
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| All these privatised services must be money-spinners for the companies involved, otherwise they would not do them and it is our local taxes making their profits. |
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| That was in 1992 and it was indeed to take the National Grid, privatised in 1990, back into public ownership as a natural monopoly. |
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| In June 1996 a second London bus operation, London General was acquired from the management team that had purchased it when privatised. |
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| The privatised industries that demonstrated improvement sometimes did so while still under state ownership. |
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| A society in which the interests and functions of the state have been privatised by a minority, and the people are disoriented and subjected to all kinds of chicanery, and are dying in a dehumanising jungle as a result. |
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| Michael Gove's adulation for Tory Peer Lord Harris and his academies reminded me of the time I asked Sir Cyril Taylor, then the government's top cheerleader for privatised schools, what Harris's contribution was. |
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| Agricultural research institutions have been closed or privatised and the agricultural advisory service dismantled, leading to the loss of an irreplaceable knowledge bank and the decline of agriculture. |
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| You have just dreamed up Britain's privatised rail network. |
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| As a result of both trends, fertile agricultural land is being swiftly privatised and consolidated by foreign companies in some of the world's poorest and hungriest countries. |
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| Small companies, large companies and services were privatised. |
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| The railways were privatised in 1996 and most Kent passenger services were franchised to Connex South Eastern. |
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| Austria has a particular interest in Malta because thousands of our holidaymakers go there every year and because we have a share in the privatised airport. |
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| All too often at the moment public offers, for example when an entity previously owned by the State is privatised, are limited to a single Member State. |
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| The most important event was a long-awaited judgment from the European Court of Justice that will trammel the power of national governments to protect privatised companies from takeover bids. |
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| Thus, in the United Kingdom, the State is being criticised for their withdrawal whilst the privatised ports still have need of political and financial support from the Government. |
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| However, when what is one's own becomes aesthetically and culturally privatised, that which is communal remains an unshared and thus a transient experience. |
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| Concerns have been voiced regarding the impact of these reforms on rail safety performance, especially in cases of reforms that have privatised or deregulated state ownership and control of railways. |
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| Prince William's days as RAF Sea King pilot are numbered following the announcement that search and rescue services to be privatised. |
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| A lack of a real long-term industrial strategy, a frantic scramble for immediate profits, those have been the main characteristics of the Alstom Group since it was privatised. |
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| On 6 November 1997 Lautex was privatised by sale to the Daun Group. On 22 April 1998 another investor, the Maron Group, acquired half the share capital in Lautex. |
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| The privatised ratio of dialysis units in comparison to the average is also outstandingly high with two thirds of all facilities privately ow ned. |
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| But we must also be ready, after years of a single-track belief that everything, even prisons, could be privatised, to rethink where the line between state and the market lies. |
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| Ideas, images, knowledges, code, languages and even affects can be privatised and controlled as property, but it is more difficult to police ownership because they are so easily shared or reproduced. |
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| Chintan has researched the impact in two zones, and has found that half the ragpickers reported a substantial drop in earnings. In Mumbai, waste collection has not yet been privatised, but it might be soon. |
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| However, Railtrack was privatised in May 1996, and by 2000 it was judged inappropriate that Railtrack should be the approver of the safety cases of operators with whom it had commercial contracts and relationships. |
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| As for the so-called social model, the workers know all about that, with jobs being slashed, unemployment portioned out, the welfare and pension system dismantled and health and education privatised. |
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| In Greece, for example, the price per unit for local and long distance calls has risen over tenfold and profits have risen a hundredfold since Greek Telecom and mobile telephony were privatised. |
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| She privatised state industries, refused to negotiate with the unions, abolished state controls, broke the striking miners and replaced Keynesianism with Friedman's monetarism. |
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| But at the halfway point in Britain's angry lost decade, enough evidence is now in to say this: after socialising the bankers' debts, we privatised despair. |
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| These were privatised by a Conservative government in the 1980s, which, arguably, sold them – like the recent Royal Mail sale – well below their market value. |
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| One important area for research, sometimes overlooked, is the need for unions to continue to monitor the performance of enterprises which have been privatised. |
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| It is also of significance that the position with regard to ownership of the power station was unclear, which meant that it could not be privatised, and that it was of enormous importance in terms of safeguarding jobs. |
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| It is in the interest of government to involve a broad constituency, especially one which represents the interests of the poor, and poor people themselves in the shaping of privatised basic services. |
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| The energy sector has also been very dynamic since the government privatised it to harness the considerable hydroelectric power potential we have. |
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| In a landmark decision, the government of Burkina Faso has decided to remove its water and electricity utilities from the list of state companies to be privatised. |
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| Loetz also suggests that Zwinglian Zurich increasingly privatised religious matters, removing the sacred from unseemly brushes with the profane. |
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| From 1994 to 1997, Major privatised British rail, splitting it up into franchises to be run by the private sector. |
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| Shares in the privatised utilities were sold below their market value to ensure quick and wide sales, rather than maximise national income. |
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| The Vale of Rheidol Railway was privatised in 1989 and continues to operate as a private heritage railway. |
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| Ofwat was set up in 1989 at the time when the 10 Water Authorities in England and Wales were privatised by flotation on the stock market. |
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| When water and sewer companies were privatised in England and Wales in 1989, these services remained public in Northern Ireland and in Scotland. |
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| However, in a bid to mitigate corruption, many countries have partly privatised their customs. |
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| Most of the economy has been privatised, including the banks and telecommunications. |
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| When BAA was privatised in the late 1980s, as BAA plc, it consolidated its airport portfolio and sold Prestwick Airport. |
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| In 1991 the newly privatised British Airports Authority, BAA Limited, consolidated their portfolio of UK airports. |
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| Paddington's ownership was transferred to Great Western Trains in 1996, two years after Britain's railways were privatised. |
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| The rail transport market is privatised, but while there are many privately owned enterprises, the largest operators are still owned by state. |
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| In 1993 it was again suggested that the Forestry Commission could be privatised, sparking protest from many conservation groups. |
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| Cardiff City Council tried to introduce rip-off privatised parking into the Canton area of Cardiff. |
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| In a privatised hospital, which can offer both private and public EDs, this is like money for jam. |
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| In 1992 the port was privatised and is part of the Forth Ports organisation, the PLA retaining the role of managing the tidal Thames. |
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| Qandil was sentenced to one year in prison while in office for not carrying out a court ruling to renationalise a company that was privatised in 1996, the BBC reports. |
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| It became part of Regional Railways North East and on 2 March 1997 was privatised with Northern Spirit and its successor, Arriva Trains Northern maintaining the brand. |
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| Sweden is a world leader in privatised pensions and pension funding problems are relatively small compared to many other Western European countries. |
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| On 31 December 2009, rather than being fully privatised, the mint ceased to be an executive agency and its assets vested in a limited company, Royal Mint Ltd. |
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| The Water Services Regulation Authority, or Ofwat, is the body responsible for economic regulation of the privatised water and sewerage industry in England and Wales. |
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| The fact that some parastatal buyers have turned the privatised factories into stores or other products of their choice, has aroused many questions in the public's mind. |
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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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| Governments often use golden shares as a method of retaining control in a privatised company of strategic importance, but is there a better way to protect national interests? |
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| Later that year it was announced the line had been purchased by the owners of Brecon Mountain Railway, becoming the first part of British Rail to be privatised. |
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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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| Cowie plc bought United Automobile Services and British Bus in July and August 1996, both of which had acquired a number of privatised bus companies. |
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| When Thames Water was privatised in 1990, its river management functions were transferred to the National Rivers Authority, in 1996 subsumed into the Environment Agency. |
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| Unlike other major players in the privatised railway system of Great Britain, the ROSCOs are not subject to close regulation by the economic regulatory authority. |
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