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- noun Plural form of
privatisation .
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Examples
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Aung Naing Oo, a Burma political analyst in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai, agreed that the privatisations could be a sign of shifting sands in Burma.
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Over decades of privatisations to boost the Treasury's coffers, governments dating back to the Thatcher era have sold off all obviously saleable public assets to the private sector.
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Not only has Mr Papandreou to get parliamentary approval for €28bn of spending cuts, tax increases and privatisations, he must begin implementing this draconian programme by 3 July, in time for the next extraordinary meeting of eurozone ministers.
Greece and the eurozone: Accept reality – and default | Editorial 2011
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Cuts in the bloated public sector, reductions in pay and pensions, new taxes and privatisations of airports, state lotteries, the Greek water supply and the postal service are part of the deal agreed by Papandreou's government.
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Decades of inflating property values and giveaway privatisations have ensured the financial sector is used to making easy money, so why would it work longer and harder to finance manufacturing?
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ATHENS Reuters - Greece must avoid debt restructuring and push on with budget cuts and privatisations to overcome its debt crisis, the country's Prime Minister George Papandreou and senior ECB officials said on Saturday.
Greek Prime Minister Papandreou Rejects Debt Restructuring The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Not only has Mr Papandreou to get parliamentary approval for €28bn of spending cuts, tax increases and privatisations, he must begin implementing this draconian programme by 3 July, in time for the next extraordinary meeting of eurozone ministers.
Greece and the eurozone: Accept reality – and default | Editorial 2011
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His government can now focus all efforts on building support in parliament for the ambitious series of fiscal measures and privatisations.
Papandreou survives confidence vote on handling of Greece debt crisis 2011
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ATHENS Reuters - Greece must avoid debt restructuring and push on with budget cuts and privatisations to overcome its debt crisis, the country's Prime Minister George Papandreou and senior ECB officials said on Saturday.
Greek Prime Minister Papandreou Rejects Debt Restructuring The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Patarkatsishvili worked with Berezovsky from the late 80s and they made their enormous fortunes in car dealerships, then in the string of cut-price privatisations of state assets.
Carlos Tevez: The billionaires' fight over his ownership revealed | David Conn 2011
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