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The trust, a not-for-profit organisation, oversees dozens of schools, has a history of mergers and has been described as an "asset-stripping organisation".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph and John-Paul Ford-Rojas 2011
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The trust, a not-for-profit organisation, oversees dozens of schools, has a history of mergers and has been described as an "asset-stripping organisation".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph and John-Paul Ford-Rojas 2011
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UCST has been accused of "ruthless" profiteering and described as an "asset-stripping organisation".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph and John-Paul Ford-Rojas 2011
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Many of Russia's fortunes were created not by building viable businesses, but by asset-stripping government firms acquired through official favor.
India's Crony Socialism Sadanand Dhume 2011
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As a private institution of higher education, its creation is a setback for the campaign against this government's policy – a policy of commercialisation of education through fees, as a precursor to the bankrupting, and then the asset-stripping or sale, of public provision.
Letters: The shame of this 'gated intellectual community' 2011
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Forests sell-off plan by government is 'asset-stripping our natural heritage'
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As a private institution of higher education, its creation is a setback for the campaign against this government's policy – a policy of commercialisation of education through fees, as a precursor to the bankrupting, and then the asset-stripping or sale, of public provision.
Letters: The shame of this 'gated intellectual community' 2011
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While the business lobbyists were fulminating about Miliband's anti-business crusade, I received a number of texts from leading businessmen who while intensely disliking the language of "predators" and " asset-stripping", were sympathetic to the larger arguments he is making.
Good capitalism does exist. And it's more crucial now than ever | Will Hutton 2011
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Back then it was called the Greed Decade, with asset-stripping barbarians at the gate.
Bain Capital Saved America Daniel Henninger 2012
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Oh, right... so Khordokovsky's grotesque asset-stripping of the Ex-Soviet Union under Yeltsin isn't in question, but it's not fair that he has to serve a few years in jail, while his mate Berezovsky is free in London as guest of successive UK governments, despite allegedly even more grotesque shenanigans, not definitely excluding his mate Litvinenko's grotesque demise?
Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Russia's political prisoner | Editorial 2010
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