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- noun Plural form of
privatizer .
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Examples
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Suez, is one of the world's largest "privatizers" of water services and has created scenarios where poor people living in slums often pay 5-10 times more per liter of water than wealthy people living in the same city.
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Get rid of research and development, fire all the customer service people, sell every division, escape the pension obligations, take on whopping debt and -- bingo -- the quarterly profit jumps, the hired gun gets his 100 mil, the 'privatizers' sell off the newly 'streamlined' business for big bucks and everyone looks for the next 'underdeveloped' opportunity.
Disaster Capitalism and its Shock Doctrine-- making Nazism seem tame 2007
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Get rid of research and development, fire all the customer service people, sell every division, escape the pension obligations, take on whopping debt and -- bingo -- the quarterly profit jumps, the hired gun gets his 100 mil, the 'privatizers' sell off the newly 'streamlined' business for big bucks and everyone looks for the next 'underdeveloped' opportunity.
Disaster Capitalism and its Shock Doctrine-- making Nazism seem tame 2007
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A lot of would-be "privatizers" and other SS gutters are pushing the
Balloon Juice 2010
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He has swallowed the reactionary, corporate privatizers 'language, hook, line, and sinker, without a scintilla of skepticism.
Good News: The Battle for Education Reform (and Dollars) Goes Local « PubliCola 2010
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Do the privatizers advocate a tax increase, or possibly a new earmarked tax, for this purpose?
Social Security Myths, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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There are real divisions in Iranian society, but those include the divisions between neoliberal privatizers and those who worry about the poor.
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As far as I can tell the privatizers have not seriously addressed this issue.
Social Security Myths, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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This would certainly have been true without the favoritism shown at times by the privatizers towards certain investors such as the beneficiaries of “loans for shares.”
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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This would certainly have been true without the favoritism shown at times by the privatizers towards certain investors such as the beneficiaries of “loans for shares.”
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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