1. The privatisation allowed companies to rake in huge profits.

2. Ridley, as commerce secretary, masterminded the privatisation.

3. The government is to accelerate its privatisation programme.

4. He has direct experience of the process of privatisation.

5. Privatisation is a necessary staging post to an open market.

6. Privatisation goes against the grain of their principle of opposition to private ownership of industry.

7. The privatisation of the electricity industry-the biggest sell-off of them all.

8. Privatisation and gimmickry are not the answer to improving Britain's rail service.

9. Most unions see privatisation as an inevitable prelude to job losses.

10. I reject absolutely the notion that privatisation of our industry is now inevitable.

11. Electricity privatisation has exploded the myth of cheap nuclear power.

12. Rail privatisation gives them the shivers.

13. For example, the impact of electricity privatisation is speculative.

14. Free marketeers even talked of privatisation.

15. In the long term, Mr Heseltine said that privatisation was the only hope for the industry.

16. Even water privatisation, which every opinion poll showed to be a deeply unpopular measure, was almost six times over-subscribed.

17. Corporate finance and privatisation, in particular, did well, increasing fee income by 19% to ￡16m.

18. Rather, the best argument for privatisation is that it would allow the railways to expand their services.

19. Privatisation used to be a badge of honour worn with pride by these Ministers.

20. We shall pursue the privatisation programme, and encourage private investment, both domestic and foreign.

21. Norton believes privatisation of electricity and water companies means more funds will come on stream.

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22. But not everyone accepts the wisdom of privatisation, even in the government.

23. The Government was determined to go full steam ahead with its privatisation programme.

24. They believe these two devices are connected with protests against water privatisation.

25. Favourable treatment has been given to the small shareholder, when allocating oversubscribed issues, in some of the privatisation issues.

26. Programme S.TDY 6.30 26/10/93 Rail workers rally in London in protest about privatisation plans.

27. It should also be pointed out that white-collar industries have suffered from privatisation.

28. Take away or subsidise all nuclear power stations and you lose the commercial logic of the privatisation plans.

29. Rose Newbigging reports Without doubt the White Paper is a thinly disguised blueprint for the privatisation of health care in this country.

30. Mr Knapp warned passengers and rail workers alike their fate was in their own hands if they voted for candidates supporting privatisation.

31. The firm's crash will come as a blow to the Government's rail privatisation plans.

32. The Shadow Agriculture Minister says privatisation would be a scandal and could threaten jobs in the timber industry.

33. However, whether necessary or not, privatisation must be made to work.

34. The incident has cast light on the creeping privatisation of the drug war.

35. We had great difficulty getting information on the atomic energy privatisation measure.

36. The electricity privatisation also ran into difficulties over nuclear power stations.

37. And rail union leader Jimmy Knapp said privatisation would put up fares by 142 percent.

38. It is still too soon to comment with any authority on the likely form of privatisation.

39. Doctor Strang also introduced fears that privatisation will effect the future of jobs in the timber industry.

40. And they are audibly unsure how keen on privatisation the government really is.

41. Time allowed 00:19 Read in studio Office staff at Gloucester Prison have joined a one-day national strike against the privatisation of jails.

42. It would mean reversing himself on three points: price reform, budget discipline and privatisation of land and property.

43. What is sometimes not appreciated is that privatisation of provision and finance requires extra regulation.

44. The privatisation of finance occurs when the government reduces subsidies or increases charges.

45. The only party in Northern Ireland which supports privatisation is the small Conservative party.

46. Part of the Council's records-base is going through the mill of privatisation.

47. Officials insist, for example, that the scope for privatisation is exaggerated.

48. Such a precedent does not exist and will not be established under the relatively minor privatisation programme that we are discussing today.

49. The main questions which the project will focus upon are: Has privatisation laid the foundation for longer-term change in employee relations?

50. Fixing the market through fresh legislation would be seen as a signal that the privatisation of the electricity industry was flawed.

51. Today a gentle meander through the horrors of rail privatisation.

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52. At the last count, Britain boasted about 11 million private shareholders, the majority of them beneficiaries of the privatisation boom.

53. Legally, the government was obliged to maintain strong control of transport, making privatisation problematic.

54. Privatisation is to be pushed through without even the safeguard of a consultative body.

55. But privatisation offers the best hope of producing even bigger gains in the years ahead.

56. But our future as a business depends on us playing a full role in privatisation in whatever form that takes.

57. The second was a report on restructuring the business in the run-up to privatisation.

58. The Ministry of Defence is to go ahead with the partial privatisation of its defence research laboratories.

59. Smurfit Paribas carried out a privatisation study and made significant borrowings available.

60. That could include non-educational matters, such as the effect of rail privatisation on reduced fares for young people.

61. However, continuing financial uncertainty meant that privatisation by means of a share issue to the public was out of the question.

62. On board were hundreds of campaigners heading for a national demonstration against the government's rail privatisation plans.

63. John MacGregor's too grey, and he's terrified my voters over rail privatisation.

64. And today's Government privatisation announcement writes another page into the history of Belfast International Airport.

65. Debt funding worth ￡690m for this original acquisition was securitised through a bond issue by Nomura shortly after privatisation.

66. If the latter is the more important, then privatisation of large nationalised industries intact will have little beneficial impact.

67. Globalisation has been one factor forcing prices down, but privatisation and increased regulation have led to a tougher competitive environment.

68. Despite speculation that the campaign, produced by Hoare Wilkins, was put together with privatisation in mind.

69. The state phone company is confident that privatisation of the cellular unit will be approved by the Postal Minister, Wolfgang Boetsch.

70. A similar package of stabilisation, privatisation and deregulation policies was pioneered by Margaret Thatcher.

71. He has cut tariffs, promoted privatisation, scrapped subsidies and reduced state spending.

72. There are a number of aspects about this privatisation which are already giving cause for alarm.

73. Thus, the 1985 proclamation of privatisation had largely stalled by 1989 for lack of buyers.

74. It would also lure small investors into privatisation issues by exempting small share deals from the stockmarket turnover tax.

75. First, even critics of privatisation have the greatest difficulty in defending the existing position.

76. As most of the privatisation issues are sold at a discount, there is usually a substantial capital gain to be made.

77. We are touching here on the sensitive area of competitive tendering and of privatisation.

78. Leading the rise were the prices of privatisation shares which would have been threatened by a Labour government.

79. Supporters argue that privatisation increases efficiency, widens share ownership and increases consumer choice.

80. The rail privatisation issue and the appalling loss of freight from the railway to road haulage is frightening in its implications.

81. Many councils have investigated, and some have actually pursued, such policies of privatisation,(/privatisation.html) or contracting out.

82. Some 60 bills are now clogging parliament on everything from privatisation to local government, with more on the way.

83. Water privatisation could well add to the list of threats against the countryside.

84. Does he agree that that will lead to preferential treatment for private patients and creeping privatisation?

85. The 1990s then will provide the proof of just exactly how long term the effects of privatisation will be.

86. The Ports Act 1991 has paved the way for this privatisation of the Trust Ports by competitive tender.

87. He has been traipsing about, explaining to staff the joys of privatisation which await them.

88. Critics say the policy puts mentally disabled people on to the streets and is part of the creeping privatisation of the health service.

89. Some Tories fondly imagine that privatisation will eliminate the need to subsidise the railways.

90. Next year, before privatisation receipts, the Red Book expects the Budget deficit to be ￡38 billion.

91. Shvydkoy hopes that the privatisation of the studios will boost film production and result in a modern distribution network.

92. Since 1979 privatisation in Britain has emerged as a significant plank of industrial policy.

93. It has reversed some policies, such as the hated Employment Contracts Act and the hasty privatisation of the accident compensation scheme.

94. The company, which began in 1980 running two second-hand buses between Dundee and London, owes its phenomenal growth to privatisation.

95. What I am concerned about is that electricity privatisation will not lend itself to improving the situation.

96. Even rich countries are discovering this: witness California's power shortages, caused by a botched privatisation.

97. Contractual undertakings on environmental protection should be included in privatisation programmes and other foreign investment projects.

98. The research as a whole will provide the vital national framework against which individual privatisation decisions can be considered.

99. In contrast the style of shareholding encouraged by privatisation is secure, self-satisfied.

100. The prime aim of the privatisation is to increase competition, efficiency and service to the consumer.

101. For the nuclear element in electricity privatisation is the coping stone on which the flotation plans are based.

102. President Banzer, to quell the spreading demonstrations, announced cancellation of the water privatisation on April 5.

103. Privatisation will not inevitably lead to changes in public perception.

104. The contract is the mechanism by which the Town Hall will monitor the administration of public funds through the privatisation process.

105. These questions underline the real issues to be faced by all the interested parties involved in privatisation.

106. In what sense, if at all, have employees benefited from privatisation?

107. Can the Government guarantee that the recent increases in railfreight charges will not continue under their privatisation proposals?

108. They were even charged for collecting rainwater on rooftops. After huge demonstrations the privatisation was replaced by local water supply.

109. In other public utilities, there was a reasonable chance of some benefit from privatisation.

110. Big privatisation programmes are not on the cards.

111. Parliament plans to redraft the law on privatisation.

112. Their organisation has been subjected to creeping privatisation since 1981.

113. Privatisation and other economic reforms are impeded by a secretive (), Soviet - style bureaucracy.

114. One such would be maintaining the government's support for Mr Kamei's ill-conceived reversal of the postal privatisation.

115. One cold morning in November 1989, the government of the rural Canadian province of Saskatchewan started the privatisation of PotashCorp through an initial public offering – and raised a mere $231m.

116. He has started a privatisation programme to try and win support from the business community.

117. The Western system is based on privatisation and monopolisation of knowledge — approaches that run against China's needs.

118. Privatisation, the selling off of council housing, war against the unions was all done in the name of monetarism, or "sado-monetarism" as some dubbed it.

119. The Gorodets collective farm has recently been bought up by a bank. But it is a very Belarusian kind of privatisation - the bank itself is state-owned.

120. Some bankers think it will become a blue-chip stock, as the biggest of the firms created amid the recent break-up and partial privatisation of UES, Russia's former power monopoly.

121. Mass privatisation broke the planners' grip but failed to create the hoped-for shareholder democracy.

122. In theory privatisation has the scope to restructure the economy, but a fire sale risks letting the choicest assets fall into the hands of cronies who will manipulate regulation to suit themselves.

123. The risk is that they bring in bad policies. One such would be maintaining the government's support for Mr Kamei's ill-conceived reversal of the postal privatisation.

124. In the 1990s, while other former Soviet states limped from rampant privatisation to financial crisis, the Belarussian economy remained stable under almost total state control.

125. Privatisation remains a thorny issue in a country where private property became a constitutional right only in 2004 and where the right to own productive assets remains unclear.

126. Many firms, including state companies up for privatisation, are only now starting to keep proper, audited accounts.

127. It would be unwise for the government to think of privatisation as a means of saving money.

128. We will be pressing ahead with our policies on privatisation, deregulation and cutting out waste.