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- noun economics The process or an instance of returning to private ownership.
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Why haven't we seen an ammendment suggested that would help pull us out of this crisis and help the notion of reprivatization that said, "If you are a too-big-to-fail institution, and you have to rely on government asset purchases, government debt guarantees, access to the Fed window for more than a 60 day period, etc., your board members and your executives will all be considered to be working under a supervisory action, immediately, replaced as soon as possible, and your board and senior officers will all be prohibited from working for a regulated financial institution for a period of five years."
Housing Doom 2009
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Accordingly, this office recommends a new corporate strategy: Whatever Mr. Obama says, GE should do the opposite, starting with investing in coal-burning power-plants and health care reprivatization.
What GE Was Thinking in 2011 Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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That will minimize costs (which will still be large) and reprivatization will allow the government to recoup some of the upside.
Matthew Yglesias » Rich Bankers: We Want Trillions of Dollars 2009
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And I think, as I said earlier, we're not going to see any more no-strings bailouts, and we're hopefully a lot closer to the kind of recievership - and-reprivatization process that should have been done from the start.
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Reading about the Tolyatti "business dispute," the pressure on the courts, and the purported role of the presidential administration reminded me of the scandalous interview that formerly Kremlin-connected fund manager Oleg Shvartsman gave to "Kommersant" in November 2007 in which he cast some light on the "voluntary-compulsory" measures that Putin insiders (he named especially First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin) in order to implement a "velvet reprivatization."
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Just six months after the Orange Revolution brought a pro-democracy team to power in 2005, moderate, avidly pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko dismissed Mrs. Tymoshenko from the post of prime minister, in part because she was pushing for wide-scale reprivatization of assets of Ukraine's wealthy businessmen she believed were bought at sharp discounts through political connections.
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The Argentine congress approved the repurchase plan only after removing a clause allowing for the airline's future reprivatization.
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The governing coalition agreed to the reprivatization of farmlands.
1990, Jan. 5 2001
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Komorowski, who is aligned with Tusk's governing Civic Platform party but is elected separately from the government, also acknowledged what many critics frequently note - that Poland is the only young democracy from the former East Bloc that hasn't passed any reprivatization or recompensation law.
The Seattle Times 2011
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In the world after the crisis, how can we move toward reprivatization?
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