The government is looking to privatize some big infrastructure assets.
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Let them privatize the cost of the impacts of carbon.
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The government announced its intention to privatize IMI in 2013.
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On Monday, Mr. Obama rejected calls to privatize the system.
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"They socialize the risk and privatize the profits," he said.
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Trump wants to privatize air traffic management, according to Rep.
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They privatize their sexuality, which means they don't flaunt it.
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In more recent years, however, Republicans stopped pushing their plan to privatize Social Security and began carefully structuring plans that would privatize Medicare so as to exempt everyone currently over the age of 55.
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The government aims to privatize as many as possible, he said.
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The other is House Speaker Paul Ryan's plan to privatize Medicare.
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Yes, there are people out there who want to privatize it.
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Congress will need to pass legislation to privatize air traffic control.
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But why, then, the push to privatize our great open spaces?
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In principle, there is no reason not to privatize Sberbank completely.
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Reagan would not try to privatize or cut the program again.
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Once you privatize our irreplaceable natural heritage, there's no going back.
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We're going to stand up against efforts to privatize Social Security.
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Not surprisingly, the plan to privatize the ISS has generated controversy.
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An ambitious push was underway to privatize a variety of industries.
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Efforts to privatize veterans health care are opposed by both candidates.
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She plans to scrap a plan to privatize French hydropower stations.
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Now oil prices are recovering, the imperative to privatize is fading.
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We must protect the VA system, not privatize the VA system.
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Like the Wall Street bailouts, stadium subsidies socialize risk and privatize profit.
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Above all, they said, Greece had been slow to privatize state assets.
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Trump reportedly plans to privatize PBS, the longtime home of Sesame Street.
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It's why the movement to privatize toll roads never really took off.
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Essentially, Pruitt wants to privatize profits from businesses while socializing their expenses.
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Last year, the government put forward a plan to privatize the Autobahn.
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HK/SIN after Swire Pacific said it intended to privatize the former.
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Because then he could privatize Medicare and slash taxes on the wealthy.
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He also wants to slash funding to Medicaid and to privatize Medicare.
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On Monday, Mr. Rosselló announced his intention to privatize the power authority.
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"Are you going to privatize in exchange for anybody's money?" he said.
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The agreement increased the economic incentive to privatize and develop traditional lands.
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The territory announced in January that it would privatize its power system.
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We don't need to fully privatize the V.A. to make it better.
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He authored a very important 1959 report that he circulated to state legislatures, and ultimately published in newspapers to try and get the state to essentially privatize the public education system—before we had "privatize" as a verb.
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In the early 22010s, the government decided to privatize the domain name registry.
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Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras SA, which the government plans to privatize, scored an 8.
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The Democrats already in Congress should sign a pledge never to privatize Medicare.
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He also announced a proposal to privatize the nation's air traffic control. 4.
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Attempts to partially privatize it in the 1990s and in 85033 were defeated.
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Unfortunately, history has proved that efforts to "privatize" ATC operations are no exception.
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America's next president should privatize such aid and help seed new independent foundations.
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We will never, ever engage in a risky scheme to privatize Social Security.
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Why Trump's plan to privatize air traffic control could end up costing more
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Mr. Booth lobbied against President George W. Bush's proposal to privatize Social Security.
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Pressures to privatize and close VA facilities are short-sighted and ill-informed.
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He also plans to privatize and modernize the U.S. air-traffic control system.
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However, critics pounced on it as an effort to partially privatize Security Security.
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We've heard proposals to privatize it, raise the retirement age, or reduce benefits.
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But, like George W. Bush's doomed effort to privatize Social Security, it ends.
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Plans to privatize state firms are central to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's economic proposals.
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Al Baker also said he expects Qatar Airways to privatize in the next decade.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan is planning to move forward with plans to privatize Medicare.
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Meanwhile, a proposal to privatize state electricity and energy companies has reportedly been shelved.
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Opposition groups had called for protests against plans to privatize huge swathes of farmland.
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After all: Remember what happened when Bush tried and failed to privatize Social Security?
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Nevertheless, on June 11, the Puerto Rican legislature approved a bill to privatize Prepa.
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Rossello has announced plans to privatize Puerto Rico's bankrupt, quasi-public power utility, PREPA.
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Many lawmakers also opposed the administration's proposal to privatize the air traffic control system.
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The decision to partially privatize the probation service was heavily criticized at the time.
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In 2013, Belgrade attempted to privatize Galenika but the sole bidder, Canada's Valeant VRX.
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Minas Gerais' new governor, Romeu Zema, has given indications that he could privatize Cemig.
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Another option, of course, is a more concerted effort to privatize the security process.
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France has said it intends to privatize ADP in 2019 if market conditions permit.
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Over the past decades, Slovenia has been reluctant to privatize major companies and banks.
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"If you privatize infrastructure, then you've brought in the profit motive," Mr. Nordenson said.
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In fact, Musk has signaled his wish to privatize the electric vehicle maker before.
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The G.O.P. congressional leadership is fast-tracking Reaganomic "solutions" — privatize, deregulate, reduce taxes, etc.
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Democrats felt good in 2005 when they defeated George W. Bush's effort to privatize Social Security, and alarmed during the 2012 campaign when it seemed like one or two bad jobs reports might mean the election of a GOP determined to privatize Medicare.
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If Trump decides to privatize the war, it will mark a major change in strategy.
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There is no serious effort to privatize or dismantle the V.A.'s health care system.
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He also accused the opposition of plotting to privatize the country's national health care system.
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Correa says the government is trying to hide its efforts to privatize the oil industry.
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It is also preparing to privatize larger firms such as oil producers KazMunayGaz (KMG) KMGZ.
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The President also accuses the opposition of plotting to privatize the national health care system.
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And later in life, Jacobs partnered with libertarians in Canada to privatize the energy industry.
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N) is leading a $2.6 billion bid to privatize Intime Retail Group Co Ltd (1833.
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Lebanon also must privatize a number of government-run businesses, such as energy and electricity.
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And tech companies that privatize development instead of investing in public infrastructure are similarly complicit.
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But in 2013, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto began to gradually privatize the energy sector.
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The move comes amid a push by the Trump administration to privatize air traffic control.
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"Never did I want to, or would I want to, 'privatize health insurance'," he said.
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President Trump's plan to privatize air traffic control is struggling to get off the ground.
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These included a lack of democratic accountability and pressure to privatize public services, he said.
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I know the Koch brothers and the funders of the Republican Party want to privatize.
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Epic has spurred new policy designed to curtail the move to privatize and atomize adjudication.
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Tap on the album where you've stored the pictures that you'd like to privatize.14.
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" DeVos defended the budget request, saying she is "not out to privatize anything about education.
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"We cannot outsource and privatize health care for America's veterans," Mr. Obama said to applause.
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BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's surprise move to privatize Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA (ELET5.
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Repeat steps seven and eight if you want to fully privatize your birthday information.10.
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And in Congress, the land-grabbers are also pushing legislation to privatize Western public lands.
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The president-elect wants to privatize health services provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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He is also in favor of slashing funding to Medicaid and wants to privatize Medicare.
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The Bush-era GOP wanted to privatize Social Security and had a vision for privatizing Medicare.
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In Chicago, four aldermen are suggesting the city should privatize security at O'Hare and Midway airports.
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The voucher program would represent a giant leap forward in the effort to privatize public schools.
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Eletron was part of a group that bid in an auction to privatize Vale in 1997.
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Cohn said if cities "sell off" or privatize infrastructure assets, the administration could provide financial support.
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What does the plan to privatize Puerto Rico's water and power potentially mean for vulnerable communities?
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Donald Trump's administration wants to privatize the organization that coordinates flights and manages often antiquated systems.
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But they held the line on a single proposal: Bush's plan to partially privatize Social Security.
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Mr. Shorten accused the Turnbull government of having secret plans to privatize Australia's universal health care.
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Abubakar also said he would remove a costly fuel subsidy and identify government enterprises to privatize.
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The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority decide how to privatize within 18 months, Bloomberg BNA reports.
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Congress is considering numerous bills that would defund and ultimately privatize the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).
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Unlike the House bill, it does not seek to privatize the nation's air traffic control system.
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Another proposal that is sure to be controversial is to privatize the United States Postal Service.
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The decision predates the decision by Brazil's government in August to privatize Eletrobras as a whole.
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States and local governments should collectively decide when to charge user fees and privatize when necessary.
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"We will vigorously oppose any and all efforts to privatize the VA." View the discussion thread.
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Their real intent, Question 2 opponents say, is to bust teachers' unions and privatize public schools.
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Conservatives in Congress have put their big plans to privatize Medicare and public lands on hold.
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He showed me where all the pieces of information came together and how to privatize it.
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As minority leader she was instrumental in preventing George W. Bush's push to privatize Social Security.
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He will also endorse a plan to privatize and modernize the nation's air-traffic control system.
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The governor of Puerto Rico announced Monday his intentions to privatize the island's beleaguered power utility.
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"The state should completely privatize VW," FDP leader Christian Lindner was quoted saying by Handelsblatt newspaper.
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President George W. Bush pressed to partially privatize Social Security, and many Republicans disliked that idea.
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For example, she refused to allow any attempt to privatize the Royal Mail and the railways.
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It's just the latest ploy to privatize Medicare and diminish the program for generations to come.
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Sports Reference's goal is to become more comprehensive, even as sports leagues increasingly privatize their data.
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Instead, he offered vague anti-regulation platitudes and a reheated Republican plan to privatize air traffic control.
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"New Democracy has always followed that line; to gradually privatize universities, undermine welfare and research," he said.
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" ON BLACKWATER FOUNDER ERIK PRINCE PLAN TO PRIVATIZE AFGHANISTAN WAR "I'm not reviewing an Erik Prince plan.
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However, it's unlikely that commercial space companies will be fully prepared to privatize the ISS by 2024.
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"Once that's reconciled, we're going to push forward aggressively" with plans to privatize much of PREPA's operations.
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We've got to strengthen the V.A. We do not privatize the V.A. (APPLAUSE) MADDOW: Thank you, Senator.
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He announced a proposal to privatize airports and seaports, and repeated his intention to loosen gun restrictions.
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Nor did they vote for schemes to privatize Social Security or turn Medicare into a voucher program.
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The canonical example of third rail politics is the GOP's doomed 2005 push to privatize Social Security.
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The government also wants to privatize Saudi Electricity as part of wider reforms to its energy sector.
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Officials last year outlined plans to privatize Saline Water Conversion Corp, which desalinates water and produces electricity.
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Abubakar's manifesto re-iterated his plan to partially privatize state oil firm Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
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He must also grapple with a fierce partisan battle over whether to privatize VA health-care services.
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Dunleavy, a Republican in his first year as governor, has said he wants to privatize the system.
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N) led a $215 billion bid to privatize department store operator Intime Retail Group Co Ltd (225.
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" ON BLACKWATER FOUNDER ERIK PRINCE PLAN TO PRIVATIZE AFGHANISTAN WAR "I'm not reviewing an Erik Prince plan.
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The money could help alleviate financial difficulties at some Eletrobras subsidiaries that the government wants to privatize.
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Then, with victory under his belt, he proclaimed that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security.
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SAAD HARIRI: Absolutely, look, if it were up to Saad Hariri today I would privatize it tomorrow.
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He has pardoned dissidents, lifted a state of emergency and pledged to partly privatize key state-owned firms.
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Shares of power company Eletrobras also soared as the government said it would renew efforts to privatize it.
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And Kaine said Trump might privatize social security, which Pence denied, but was easily fact checked as accurate.
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Guedes is keen to privatize hundreds of state companies, including units of oil company Petrobras and utility Eletrobras.
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"Paul Ryan would put Cthulhu in the White House if it would let him privatize Medicare," she said.
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In 2202, we united a broad coalition to stop President George W. Bush's plans to privatize Social Security.
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In the 1980s, the U.S. government started to privatize the administration and collection of federally backed student debt.
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Schulkin pledged that he would not privatize the VA—a move that would draw quick backlash from Democrats.
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The government is now a corporate actor that works with the private sector to privatize our shared resources.
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Freitas said Bolsonaro's future government would seek to privatize more airports, without state-owned enterprises retaining a stake.
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The governor has said he plans to privatize the bankrupt Puerto Rican Electric Power Authority, known as PREPA.
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"Here's one thing we cannot do: We cannot outsource and privatize health care for America's veterans," he said.
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While the lower house has given approval to privatize the distributors, the Senate is still considering the measure.
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The new order would encourage entrepreneurship and foreign investment, and privatize state-owned industries, including the oil business.
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Conservatives have long pushed to privatize the rail service, but Amtrak retains support among members of both parties.
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In 1969, he was chosen by Park Chung-hee, the country's president then, to privatize South Korea's airline.
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Russia could privatize more of the economy and allow private business to compete more effectively with state enterprise.
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Vice president elect Hamilton Mourao said last week the next government wants to privatize the fuel distribution company.
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Business leaders are coming out in fierce opposition to President Trump's controversial proposal to privatize air traffic control.
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The government approved plans last month to privatize the airline, which has more than $8 billion in debt.
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With plans afoot to privatize the nonprofit airport, some residents are concerned about increasing flight traffic and noise.
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Well, when Newt Gingrich shut down the government in 1995, he was trying to, guess what, privatize Medicare.
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Instead of funding neighborhood schools, cities and states had chosen to "dismantle them and privatize them," he said.
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Blackwater founder says the EU should privatize border control Blackwater founder says the EU should privatize border control Erik Prince founded the private military contractor once known as Blackwater, which became notorious during the Iraq War for a series of scandals, including a 2007 massacre that left 17 Iraqis dead.
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Brazil's freshly appointed president has taken to Twitter to announce plans to privatize 12 airports and 4 sea ports.
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Moreno said the meeting included representatives of a Chinese company who wanted to privatize a state-owned electric company.
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Rossello has announced plans to privatize PREPA, which is burdened by outdated infrastructure and years of bloated administrative spending.
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He secured the backing of many Democrats after insisting he would not privatize the government&aposs second-largest department.
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As president, he would privatize education, roll back Obamacare, weaken Medicare, and raise the minimum age for Social Security.
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It's not immediately obvious that the U.S. can suddenly privatize the station, or do whatever they want with it.
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In a very real sense, Democrats paved the way for DeVos and her plans to privatize the school system.
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Among other measures, Bolsonaro wants to loosen gun laws, overhaul popular social welfare programs and privatize state-run enterprises.
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Current law would either privatize NASA's operations on ISS by 6900, or result in the destruction of the station.
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Besides encouraging local companies to publish updates in English, the government has also moved to privatize state-owned firms.
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Republican Congresses rejected Republican President George W. Bush's plan to privatize Social Security — just as they rejected then-Rep.
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"When I started writing the belief was that if you privatize everything, good things will follow," she told VICE.
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The next secretary will quickly be thrust into a fierce political debate about whether to further privatize veterans' care.
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It marked a sharp break from the Benettons' reputation when Italy decided to privatize Autostrade in the late '22006s.
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What we wanted was to privatize the location and screen the film for black children, teens, and adults exclusively.
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Investors have welcomed Bolsonaro's pledges to open up Brazil's closed economy, reduce and simplify taxes and privatize state companies.
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She has consistently pushed a corporate agenda to privatize, de-professionalize and impose cookie-cutter solutions to public education.
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First, Mr. Bush sought to partly privatize Social Security, a plan that went nowhere in a Republican-led Congress.
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Read more from The Hill: Trump to announce plan to privatize air traffic control: reports View the discussion thread.
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Some of the protests have been driven by fears the government planned to privatize the health and education sectors.
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Ukraine In June, violent clashes erupted at one of Kyiv's oldest cinemas after plans to privatize it met resistance.
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I was in the Senate when President George W. Bush misread his mandate and sought to privatize Social Security.
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Its purpose is to privatize control of the U.S. national airspace system – one of our nation's most valuable assets.
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We heard reports last week that our president was considering a plan to privatize the military fighting in Afghanistan.
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The transaction with Shell also opens the way for Athens to privatize the company as agreed with its international lenders.
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Norwegian social movements are resisting attempts to privatize the welfare state and also pushing for a more welcoming refugee policy.
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But Callamard said a belief that natural resources must be privatize are "killing so many people" and must be challenged.
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Then there are the education bills, backed by school profiteers, that let the DeVos family and others privatize public education.
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Noting a Rossello initiative to privatize some public assets, Eiler said "the unions' cooperation is imperative" for public-private partnerships.
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Investors are thought to be hopeful a Bolsonaro administration would tackle the country's growing fiscal deficit and privatize key companies.
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The fund has a plan to privatize 50 gas stations and find entrepreneurs willing to run convenience stores and restaurants.
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He announced his intention to privatize Prepa and sell off its assets, and signaled that he intended to move fast.
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By contrast, Sanders wants to strengthen — not undermine — Medicaid, and unlike congressional Republicans, Sanders wants to universalize — not privatize — Medicare.
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On January 1003, Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced that he planned to "privatize" the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.
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Bolsonaro has pledged to privatize an array of state enterprises, including units of oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) (PETR4.
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The government is preparing a second offering of shares in Japan Post as it seeks to privatize the postal service.
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Rajapaksa's campaign targeted an uptick in inflation, higher taxes imposed by the government and its moves to privatize state assets.
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Governor Ricardo Rossello later canceled the contract, then, in January, announced plans to privatize PREPA over the next 18 months.
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Governor Ricardo Rossello last week announced plans to privatize the agency, selling off generation units over the next 18 months.
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When the courts outlawed overt segregation in the 280s and '22s, many whites reacted by trying to "privatize" public spaces.
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They are especially optimistic that their fortunes could change if Republicans try to cut or privatize Medicare and Social Security.
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It might seem surprising that Mr. Ryan — who has also been saying that he wants to privatize Medicare — was agreeable.
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The Department of Transportation (DOT) has accepted St. Louis's preliminary application to privatize its airport operations, the agency announced Monday.
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In March, Reuters reported that Cemig intended to sell Cemig Telecom assets in an auction rather than privatize the company.
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A critical part of this plan was a crash program to privatize former Yugoslav state assets like the Grand Hotel.
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I think we need a public one, and not to privatize it again like we did in the '90s. Yeah.
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SCOTT And the arc of those movies is also a way toward this idea that we need to privatize wars.
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He wants to privatize hospitals and dismantle the state monopoly over land distribution, which he says will create affordable housing.
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But eventually Social Security became effectively untouchable, as George W. Bush learned when he tried to privatize it in 2005.
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The city's decision to privatize its parking meters and the Chicago Skyway, a major toll road, has been widely criticized.
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The row actually dates back to the former Soviet Union, where its fall led state-owned corporations to quickly privatize.
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"And doing it in a way that doesn't privatize our infrastructure or give tax breaks to the billionaires," Sanders said.
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They don't always come out and say the word 'privatize,' but you read what they say, that's what they mean.
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What producers here want is to privatize the reserves, and there's hostility here towards anyone who tries to stop them.
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Democrats and veterans' advocacy groups have been wary of Republican efforts to privatize the VA since before Trump took office.
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Mr. Myers had previously called to privatize the weather service, a stance that generated opposition both inside and outside NOAA.
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The way out is to privatize Puerto Rico – to shift its emphasis from public sector employment to private sector gains.
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The issue has divided Republicans, but Massie has been a vocal proponent of the proposal to privatize air traffic control.
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The U.S. government's decision to fully privatize oversight of the internet Domain Name System (DNS) is running into resistance. Sen.
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Roach said Ford's decision to allow liquor sales in corner stores gave her hope that he would also privatize weed.
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But such schemes would also amount to a backdoor way to privatize public assets, while possibly generating little new investment.
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He also wants to privatize Medicare, which could potentially wreak havoc for America's rapidly growing population of people 65 and over.
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Most of the attention on the bill was focused on a failed Republican effort to privatize the air traffic control system.
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Terry Branstad predicted the state would be saving annually by now as he was advocating to privatize the Iowa Medicaid system.
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The move, she said, could energize "those who want to privatize public lands" — a goal of some anti–federal government advocates.
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Throughout his campaign, Bolsonaro said he wants the Brazilian central bank to be more independent and to privatize state-run companies.
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Greece has to conclude ADMIE's plan by March or fully privatize the grid, a possibility which PPC's chairman has ruled out.
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In January, Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced plans to privatize PREPA, a move that brought an objection from Puerto Rico's energy regulator.
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DeVos refused to promise that she would not privatize or strip funding from the public schools she would oversee if confirmed.
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In 2005, when Democrats wanted the GOP's plan to privatize Social Security to drive news coverage, Bush played into their hands.
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On Monday, Trump announced his plans to privatize air traffic control as part of a push to modernize the country's infrastructure.
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Sao Paulo's government, which took office in January, wants to privatize several companies to raise some 3 billion reais ($794 million).
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The Brazilian government has been working to privatize Eletrobras since the administration of ex-President Michel Temer, who stepped down Jan.
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SHCHETINKA, Russia (Reuters) - Russia's government should do its best to privatize a stake in the nation's largest oil producer Rosneft (ROSN.
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In late January, a Republican congressman for Utah introduced a bill to privatize more than 3 million acres of public lands.
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The Spanish state holds a 61 percent stake in Bankia and the government has until 2019 to fully privatize the lender.
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As policymakers determine whether to privatize veterans' health care and to what extent, cyber threat considerations should be at the forefront.
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Historians and opposition politicians have accused the Indian government of trying to privatize historical sites, including the world famous Taj Mahal.
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Meanwhile, the education ministry has hired HSBC as financial adviser for its plans to privatize construction and management of school buildings.
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On May 21, protests erupted in Kazakhstan over a proposal to let its government privatize land by selling it at auction.
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It means adequate support in retirement from Social Security — which Democrats want to expand, but Republicans want to cut and privatize.
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Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced in January 2018 his plans to privatize PREPA, a process that was expected to take 18 months.
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In Hong Kong, he spearheaded efforts to privatize Chinese state-owned enterprises, including a landmark $20003 billion deal for China Telecom.
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Congressional conservatives' attempts to gut Medicaid, privatize Medicare, and cut programs that benefit older Americans have been slowed, but not stopped.
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Plans to privatize state firms are central to Bolsonaro's economic proposals as he aims to kick-start the country's flagging economy.
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Paul Ryan's "innovative" proposals of 2011 (cut taxes and privatize Medicare) were almost indistinguishable from those of Newt Gingrich in 1995.
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Democrats have said that Mr. Myers has significant conflicts of interest, including his past eagerness to privatize the National Weather Service.
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In 2005, the prime minister at the time, Junichiro Koizumi, staked his leadership on a plan to privatize the postal system.
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He opposes efforts to privatize public lands, in a state where many adults have either a hunting or a fishing license.
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The Republicans can then move on with their real agenda to privatize Medicare and provide starvation block grants to unravel Medicaid.
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President Trump on Monday is expected to introduce a plan to privatize air traffic control as part of his infrastructure push.
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Mr. Corbyn notes that the system has deteriorated under the Conservatives' watch, and argues that Mr. Johnson would further privatize it.
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The government previously planned to privatize oil producer Bashneft, for example, but instead sold it to state-owned energy major Rosneft.
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First, as House minority leader, she played a crucial role in turning back George W. Bush's attempt to privatize Social Security.
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Instead of sniping at Democratic Party leaders, netroots bloggers trained their fire on George W. Bush's plan to privatize Social Security.
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Our House Speaker Paul Ryan is a self-proclaimed "tax wonk," (and he has already announced his plan to privatize Medicare).
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The listing details came as Saudi Arabia and Oman are also looking to privatize energy assets as low oil prices squeeze revenues.
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The fire came amid days of protests by education and medical professionals, who are urging the government not to privatize their sectors.
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And this is when we get this wave of neoliberalism that essentially guts the public sector and attempts to privatize everything. Right.
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SE) (SEC) into four parts as part of a drive to further privatize the utility, according to sources aware of the matter.
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Among those companies Moscow is looking to privatize include oil giant Rosneft, diamond company Alrosa and airline Aeroflot, according to media reports.
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It's the traditional mainstream Republicans, with whom Trump has a distinctly strained relationship, who are pushing hardest to outright privatize the country.
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Shulkin preferred to focus on reforming the agency, pushing against efforts from conservatives to capitalize on scandals to privatize veteran health care.
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The activist investor's second letter comes one week after it announced its intention to privatize J. Alexander's, a Nashville-based restaurant chain.
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" American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said at an Axios event: "You cannot think that you can privatize or outsource this.
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" The goal is to collect subway tokens and a series of glowing letters that — spoiler alert — eventually spell out the word "PRIVATIZE.
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One budget document suggests exploring ways to privatize Energy Star, without providing any details on how this could be done without funding.
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When Republicans want to attack Medicaid and privatize Medicare, their views are alien to strong majorities of voters that Sanders speaks for.
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Bolsonaro has redoubled a government-wide push to privatize assets as part of an attempt to restore faltering government finances to health.
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If Petrobras decides to sell 22 percent or more of the company, the share offering will effectively privatize the fuel distribution unit.
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Cargo would be the third unit to pursue an initial public offering (IPO) since the airline decided in 2006 to privatize them.
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The proposal to privatize the air traffic control system will encounter major hurdles in Congress where Democrats and some Republicans oppose it.
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Trump made a high-profile pitch earlier this summer to privatize the air traffic control system, but its legislative fate isn't certain.
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Sanders said then that he voted no because he was concerned that the Trump administration would privatize the VA's health care. Sens.
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She had already proven herself as a resolute obstructionist when she thwarted George W. Bush's plan to privatize Social Security in 2005.
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Clear differences with small-government conservatives could also emerge if House Republicans tried to privatize Medicare or health care services for veterans.
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Republicans looking to privatize Social Security constantly harp on the "massive" shortfall projected for the program over its 75-year planning horizon.
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The government will also privatize six power distributors owned by state-run power holding company Eletrobras in the north and northeastern regions.
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The Brazilian government has already decided to privatize the company through an offering of new Eletrobras shares that will dilute its stake.
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The government is confident it will privatize all Eletrobras electricity distributors in 2017, the minister, Fernando Coelho Filho, told reporters by phone.
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If Kasich means anything, he means "privatize", not Uberize — convert Social Security into a giant 401(k) plan, replace Medicare with vouchers.
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After all, they have banks, hospitals, and energy companies to privatize, and an electorate to misinform in time for next spring's elections.
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"Some may want to privatize their companies now due to cheaper share prices and could relist when the market returns," Wong said.
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He cited the example of Americans United, founded in 2005 to block President George W. Bush's attempt to partly privatize Social Security.
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The dispute goes beyond personality to a struggle over how far and how fast to privatize health care under the V.A. system.
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The beginning of the month saw days of events devoted to improving U.S. infrastructure, including a plan to privatize air-traffic control.
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The plan to privatize also sparked concerns with a separate group of PREPA creditors which hold around $3.3 billion of PREPA's bonds.
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Democrats criticized her for wanting to "privatize" public education and pushed her, unsuccessfully, to support making public colleges and universities tuition-free.
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The market intervention partly undid the government's efforts in previous years to privatize part of its huge holdings of large Chinese enterprises.
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The large number of seniors who have retired to Nevada vehemently object to Republican proposals to privatize Social Security and voucherize Medicare.
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Trump-appointed regulators have laid out a path to privatize Fannie and Freddie and have promised to act even if Congress doesn't.
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Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger is adding his voice to a growing chorus of opposition against President Trump's push to privatize air traffic control.
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A big-splash proposal to privatize the nation's air traffic control system, borrowed from House Republicans, has faced tougher-than-expected opposition.
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Having this model will not privatize VA and will only strengthen ties between VA and communities so veterans can be better understood.
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Speaking to lawmakers on Thursday, Shulkin said he had not faced pressure from the administration or others to privatize veterans' health care.
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Some narrow-minded people want to privatize all Western lands; others wish to rescind the protections on beloved national monuments and parks.
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At the same time, the government has to privatize some companies as part of the ongoing bailout program, including the electricity market.
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He wants to privatize public infrastructure — drawing private sector companies to fix, build and manage bridges and roads, water supplies and airports.
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For example, it suggests Saudi can't count on an ecstatic reaction should it decide to part-privatize other industrial assets in future.
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Similar House efforts to privatize air traffic control stalled last year, forcing lawmakers to enact a short-term patch for the FAA.
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These developments led to a surprisingly beneficial move in 2013 by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to gradually privatize the energy sector.
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Her policy stances are far less at odds with public opinion than, say, Ryan's attempts to privatize Medicare and slash its funding.
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At the same time, the budget proposed to end cash subsidies for millions of citizens, increase fuel prices and privatize public schools.
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Last December, the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council voted in an 8-5 decision to privatize sidewalks, as recently reported in NextCity.
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The book chronicles the early days of the rivalry between Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Bezos in the race to privatize spaceflight.
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"Like last year, salary isn't the most important thing, it's preventing the company from using asset sales to secretly privatize Petrobras," he said.
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Markets had surged on Bolsonaro's ascent in opinion polls, as he pledged to quickly close Brazil's gaping budget deficit and privatize state firms.
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Serbia wants to privatize the Balkan country's second-largest lender as part of a program between Belgrade and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Oreskovic said the government would soon outline plans to privatize some non-strategic assets, including real estate and minority stakes in some firms.
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George W. Bush promised to "change the tone" in D.C., privatize social security and reduce government spending — none of which he succeeded with.
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Jason Chaffetz from Utah has introduced a bill to privatize millions of acres of federal land many times over the past several years.
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President Donald Trump on Monday urged Congress to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system, saying it would make U.S. airports more efficient.
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The government is seeking to privatize Eletrobras by diluting its stake so that it no longer has control of the company, Albuquerque said.
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Blackwater founder Erik Prince has urged Trump to privatize the war, sending private contractors to "advise Afghan combat forces," according to USA Today.
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"Tom Price has led the charge to privatize Medicare, and for this reason, I cannot support his nomination," Donnelly said in a statement.
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Ziyavudin Magomedov, owner of Summa group, with interests in transportation, construction and agriculture, said Russia should privatize everything but the most essential monopolies.
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But when asked specifically about Trump's plans to privatize the FAA, the numbers flip, with 53 percent opposing and 33 percent in favor.
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Eletrobras, as the firm is known, is seeking to offload the heavily indebted distributors ahead of government plans to privatize the overall company.
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Attempts to "reform" or privatize Medicare will leave millions of senior citizens to the tender mercies of Wall Street investment bankers like Mnuchin.
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He replaced the generals in charge of the war in Yemen and pushed ahead with his plans to privatize Saudi Arabia's oil industry.
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"My commitment to you is I will oppose efforts to privatize," even if it runs counter to the White House agenda, Wilkie said.
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First nominated by Trump in 2017, Myers has been criticized for lobbying to privatize the very information NOAA is responsible for publicly disseminating.
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The reality is that Trump's plan to privatize our nation's infrastructure is an old idea that has never worked and never will work.
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His parents were laid off from a state-owned pharmaceutical company in the late 3443s as the government pushed to privatize China's economy.
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There are no new rules on airlines' fees for reservation changes or bags and there is no move to privatize air traffic control.
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Mr. Paulson, like some other hedge fund managers, has made a big bet that the federal government will eventually privatize Fannie and Freddie.
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In its version of a bill to privatize the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the Puerto Rico legislature has improved some on Gov.
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Under the rescue package Rome, which owns 68% of the bank's capital, must re-privatize the bank by the end of next year.
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In June, Trump unveiled a plan to privatize air traffic control in what he said would modernize the system and lower flying costs.
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That was true under George W. Bush, who sharply cut tax rates on the top 1 percent and tried to privatize Social Security.
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The outgoing administration of Brazilian President Michel Temer has attempted to privatize state-controlled energy company Eletrobras, a move which requires congressional approval.
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Petrobras holds a 71.25% stake in BR Distribuidora and is seeking to privatize the fuel distributor through a share offering in the coming weeks.
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Authors of proposals in Congress to privatize air traffic control also have some explaining to do, when it comes to the pace of modernization.
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Under pressure from its international lenders to privatize key state assets, Greece sold off the Piraeus Port Authority to Chinese company COSCO last year.
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Federal Aviation Administration: The budget includes a proposal to privatize the FAA, which would turn it over to a non-governmental non-profit corporation.
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Government officials who are members of the Deutsche Bahn board have repeatedly voiced scepticism about plans to privatize Arriva and its Schenker logistics arm.
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Novaes' biggest challenge will be improving the bank's profitability while addressing far-right President Jair Bolsonaro mandate to privatize and cut government loan subsidies.
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Rosselló's proposed bill to privatize Prepa had explicitly blocked the utility's regulator, the Puerto Rico Energy Commission, from overseeing the sale of private contracts.
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The listing on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange is part of the Vietnamese government's push to privatize state-owned firms to attract investment.
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The move was made to reflect changes in Canadian securities regulations, and does not signal plans to privatize or sell the company, McCain said.
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Conservatives are pushing to privatize the VA, and Jackson — like Shulkin before him — will likely find himself smack in the middle of that debate.
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Democrats and Veterans groups are complaining that President Trump wants to "privatize" the nation's largest integrated health system, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) system.
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In Puerto Rico, teachers held a one-day strike against the push to privatize the island's public schools in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
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Even as Republicans push to privatize public education, few Americans believe that parents should have to pay for K-12 out of their pockets.
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For example, it is not clear why the government seeks to partly privatize the Ethiopian Airlines, the most efficient, profitable, and reliable African airline.
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The states would have to privatize these lands, not only because they want the money, but also because they can't afford to manage them.
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He consulted to the Venezuelan government in the early 1990s to privatize communications systems and strengthen capital markets as a support to democratic institutions.
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Airline lobbying has soared amid a heated congressional debate over whether an aviation bill should include new passenger rights or privatize air traffic control.
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Promised legislation to spend $803 trillion on roads and bridges, which in actuality seemed more like a scheme to privatize public assets, hasn't materialized.
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"We could pass comprehensive legislation with broad bipartisan support today if the Republicans drop their divisive scheme to privatize air traffic control," he said.
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Lost as so many powerful interests would have us lose the benefits of the social welfare state, privatize Social Security, and annihilate Obamacare altogether.
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The Trump administration abruptly disbanded an advisory committee earlier this month whose recent recommendations to greater privatize national parks were met with heavy criticism.
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"I am sick and tired of efforts to privatize a special thing we need, public education," said New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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Trump has also encouraged Congress to privatize the nation's air traffic control system, though he has taken no concrete action on that front yet.
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North Carolina is turning into the next big battle, where Republicans are trying to privatize Medicaid by 2019 while many providers have voiced opposition.
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The federal government is also seeking to privatize utilities in Piauí, Acre and Alagoas, and is granting phosphate mining rights in Paraíba and Pernambuco.
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Yet, Republicans continue to push to cut or privatize Social Security benefits, turn Medicare into a voucher system, and block grant and slash Medicaid.
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At issue was how far and how fast to privatize health care for veterans, a long-sought goal for conservatives like the Koch brothers.
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"Whether you privatize or not, you have to look at the cost-benefit, what is good for Brazil and what is not," he said.
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"Whether you privatize or not, you have to look at the cost-benefit, what is good for Brazil and what is not," he said.
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Mr. Zou pressed Mr. Tsipras to honor the previous Greek government's commitments to privatize Piraeus, according to several people with knowledge of the meeting.
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The big picture: "Since taking office, President Trump and his administration have sought to privatize an array of public services," per the LA Times.
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Op-Ed Contributor Progressives have already homed in on Republican efforts to privatize Medicare as one of the major domestic political battles of 2017.
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The highly localized nature of American education naturally limits DeVos's ability to privatize schools, as Kevin Carey of the New America Foundation has noted.
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The increase is a bet that the government will privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and allow the public holders to keep their shares.
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Right after the tweet, a Tesla spokesperson told the Financial Times the company couldn't confirm whether the tweet indicated a "serious intention" to privatize.
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The proposal to privatize air traffic management comes as the FAA and NASA are studying how drones will fit safely into the national airspace.
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That has raised the government's overall holdings at a time when many economic reformers had hoped the government would privatize more companies to increase efficiency.
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Rossello is planning to privatize PREPA over the next 18 months, as Puerto Rico navigates a $120 billion bankruptcy, the largest in U.S. government history.
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In 2600, the Japanese government began to privatize and deregulate childcare, making it legal for businesses, individuals, and private preschools to open their own nurseries.
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Another immediate focus will be on reforming state giants such as Pakistan International Airlines and various power utilities, which the previous government struggled to privatize.
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TSA airport checkpoints: 27 ways to beat the lines Airports in New York and Atlanta have even threatened to privatize screening to alleviate the problem.
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Following is a chronology of events that led to the decline of the airline and of the subsequent attempts to restructure and privatize the carrier.
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Serbia wants to privatize Komercijalna Banka as part of 30-month non-financial advisory and monitoring program Between Belgrade and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Separately, Keppel said it was seeking to privatize Keppel T&T for S$1.91 per share, a 40 percent premium to the last closing price.
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Much like entrepreneurs are doing now, Nuñez wanted to act fast after a window opened: After the Soviet Union fell, Cuba briefly let restaurants privatize.
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France's plans to privatize ADP will be delayed, and possibly blocked, after the Constitutional Council last week approved plans for a referendum on the issue.
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Ocasio-Cortez's comments were also leveled as a criticism of the Trump administration's attempts to reform the VA, including policies designed to privatize VA services.
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"She has consistently pushed a corporate agenda to privatize, de-professionalize and impose cookie-cutter solutions to public education," said NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia.
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The IMF has been criticized in the past for imposing strict austerity on receiver nations, forcing governments to cut social programs and privatize national industries.
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Brown said some services will needed to be outsourced to private vendors, falling in line with Trump's promise to privatize some of the agency's work.
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He had stints as budget director and White House Chief of Staff for President George W. Bush, who sought unsuccessfully to partially privatize Social Security.
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The lower house of Congress gave its approval earlier this month to privatize the distributors, but the Senate has yet to vote on the matter.
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Eletrobras will issue new shares in the second half of 2018 as part of the plan to dilute the government's stake and privatize the company.
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The transition also apparently wants to privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and axe the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for Humanities.
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And Mr. Turnbull has vowed he will never privatize health care, although some of his party's policies appear to be chipping away at the edges.
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Rossello in January announced a plan to privatize the crippled utility, which recently experienced management changes that led to a congressional oversight hearing last week.
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Now, with its credibility gone and 30 percent of the island still in the dark, the government of Puerto Rico is proposing to privatize PREPA.
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The Commission has set HSH's owners a February 2018 deadline to privatize the bank, which can be extended by six months provided the EU agrees.
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In an article published in the newspaper Correio Braziliense, da Silva said he would reverse the ongoing process to privatize state-run energy company Eletrobras.
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Second is a better education system, not the kind that [Education Secretary] Betsy DeVos wants, which is to privatize all the schools with lower quality.
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Privatize prep football, Gerdy argues, and let the $10-billion-a-year NFL pick up the tab for training its future workforce and fan base.
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Cuomo attempted to implement a pilot program to privatize prison care packages—only to rescind it after a massive public outcry against the cruel proposal.
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"His main immediate tasks will be to improve management's efficiency," Dutra said, adding that Ferreira would need to assess whether to privatize power distribution units.
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Mostly forgotten today, the signature initiative of President Bush's second term was a push to partially privatize the nation's most popular social program, Social Security.
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He posted a message that he is "excited to work with Silver Lake and Goldman Sachs" as financial advisers on his proposal to privatize Tesla.
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His government released political prisoners, gave amnesty to people charged with political crimes and promised to partly privatize state-owned enterprises, including the national airline.
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Uganda Airlines, founded by former dictator Idi Amin in 1976, was liquidated in 2001 after years of unprofitability during a push to privatize state firms.
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White House officials said the proposal to privatize a key piece of the nation's transportation backbone was a template for the president's broader infrastructure plan.
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He's also telling Democrats that he opposes efforts to privatize the agency by outsourcing veterans' care to private-sector health-care providers at taxpayer expense.
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It will be a fight over the future of the Affordable Care Act — ObamaCare — as well as a threat to privatize Medicare and Social Security.
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The attempt to reshape the Middle East was the most obvious example, but so, too, was George W. Bush's push to partially privatize Social Security.
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After George W. Bush was reelected president in 2005, he attempted to privatize Social Security and proposed replacing the benefit with voluntary personal retirement accounts.
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Both his pick as budget director and his choice to head Health and Human Services want to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and privatize Medicare.
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He posted a message that he is "excited to work with Silver Lake and Goldman Sachs " as financial advisers on his proposal to privatize Tesla.
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Or that the administration, which picked a Twitter fight with the National Park Service on Day 1, might decide to privatize management of those lands.
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Since President Trump took office, speculation has raged that he intends to privatize major portions of the Department of Veterans Affairs' sprawling health care system.
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"Our 2 million members are opposed to any legislation or effort to close or privatize the Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare system," the organization added.
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He also emphasized the need to implement an IMF economic package in full and to privatize state-owned enterprises that are a drain on state coffers.
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He continued to tout vaporware infrastructure plans, only to eventually come up with a scheme to make grants stingier and privatize some airports, which went nowhere.
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After announcing his goal to privatize the nation's Air Traffic Control System, President Donald Trump sat down at a desk on Monday and signed two documents.
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Indeed, these sorts of stories are often told by those who seek to privatize education in a way that functions to meet the needs of industry.
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The young are trying to privatize their dreams by imagining that if they work very hard they would produce the next killer app and become billionaires.
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Ports have gained extra allure in the wake of government steps to privatize infrastructure in Latin America's largest economy, even if global maritime activity remains tepid.
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It is also part way through a program to reform power and fuel subsidies and is preparing to privatize several state owned banks and energy companies.
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The Washington Post says that it has viewed an internal NASA document that outlines the agency's intentions to privatize the station after funding ends in 2024.
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Ban all for-profit charter schools: Sanders argues these schools further discriminate against more disenfranchised students and are part of a larger plan to privatize education.
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The entities sanctioned include several LLCs that the U.S. says were used to illegally nationalize, then privatize resorts and hotels in Crimea following the Russian annexation.
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On June 5, he held an elaborate signing ceremony for the purpose of suggesting to Congress in a memo it move to privatize air traffic control.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House plan to cut transportation spending, privatize air traffic control and scrap long-distance train service is facing strong resistance in Congress .
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Republicans will side with insurers and Big Pharma to try to destroy ObamaCare, even while new customers are enrolling in large numbers, and privatize Medicare. Sen.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The far-right front-runner in Brazil's presidential election, Jair Bolsonaro, has no plans to privatize oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PETR4.
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Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras, as Eletrobras is formally called, is seeking to offload the six heavily indebted distributors ahead of government plans to privatize the overall company.
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Trump also announced last week plans to privatize air traffic control, a move that could expedite when drone delivery in the U.S. actually comes to fruition.
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They will try to spin this over the coming weeks, but this was the biggest legislative blunder since George W. Bush tried to privatize Social Security.
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And she says she would fight efforts to privatize Social Security, reduce annual cost-of-living adjustments or increase the age for collecting full retirement benefits.
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One House measure never made it to the floor after leaders scrapped it because it included a provision to privatize the nation's air traffic control system.
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And so, the White House tasked the Commerce Department, through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), with carrying out a plan to privatize the DNS.
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That is why we will stand up to Republican efforts to undermine or privatize the bedrock promise of Social Security—and we'll fight to expand it.
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It does not want to miss the opportunity to privatize the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and turn it into a giant oil field while it can.
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Even the federal government may soon privatize critical procurement functions, relying on Amazon's giantism to extract deals that the Defense Department is itself unable to demand.
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The step to privatize Moore Capital will mark the end of a storied era at the firm and follows years of weaker performance at the fund.
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But that hasn't stopped the Mayor from trying to privatize these units since they happen to sit on some of the best land in the city.
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"It's a colorful distraction and a way to fulfill the kleptocratic mandate: privatize the profits, nationalize the costs," Garry Kasparov, the chess champion, writes for ESPN.
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When you privatize morality and denude the public square of spiritual content, you've robbed people of the community resources they need to process moral pain together.
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In 225, he met with White House and Pentagon officials to pitch a plan to privatize the Afghan war using contractors in lieu of American troops.
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UBI is widely regarded as the best candidate to take on Monte dei Paschi, which the state must re-privatize by the end of next year.
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UBI is widely regarded as the best candidate to take on Monte dei Paschi, which the state must re-privatize by the end of next year.
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They also await Mr. Trump's thoughts on a proposal to privatize the air traffic control system, which has been run by the federal government since 1936.
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Instead of embarking on his wrongheaded plan to privatize infrastructure construction, he should expand existing programs that have used local-federal partnerships to build transportation systems.
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Puerto Rico's governor announced Monday that he plans to privatize the island's power system, citing a multitude of concerns about PREPA's cost to taxpayers and effectiveness.
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The idea to privatize the company came in early 2015, a time when global oil prices had hit a historic low of around $26 a barrel.
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But critics worry that the new regulations in effect privatize many of the key duties of USDA inspectors and make the rest of their duties harder.
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Eletrobras management has asked the government to put up a rescue package for these companies, as a first step on the way to later privatize them.
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"The answer is not to build more prisons and the answer is certainly not to privatize those prisons," she said as the audience erupted in cheers.
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The Trump administration has been less than candid in denying its intent to privatize the entire V.A. health system, a goal promoted by the Koch billionaires.
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"I believe that, overall, the mission of the Department of Education these days is to privatize public education, and I want to block them," she said.
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"I think there are going to be inclinations to privatize more of it and then a very powerful union that's not going to want that," Osorio said.
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Adding an additional level of complication, Musk is also CEO of SpaceX, a company that's been valued at $12 billion for its efforts to privatize space travel.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress is divided over whether to privatize the nation's air traffic control system as both chambers advance bills to expand airline passenger protections.
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Under his leadership, ADNOC has embarked on a major shake-up plan to privatize its services businesses, venture into oil trading and expand partnerships with strategic investors. .
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Clinton's health care plan never got a floor vote in the House or Senate, and neither did President George W. Bush's plan to partially privatize Social Security.
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Petrobras, as the company is widely known, will effectively privatize its listed subsidiary Petrobras Distribuidora SA in the secondary share offering set to price after markets close.
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On the domestic front, a battle is expected on a bill reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration over a push by some Republicans to privatize air traffic controllers.
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"She has consistently pushed a corporate agenda to privatize, de-professionalize and impose cookie-cutter solutions to public education," president Lily Eskelsen Garcia said in a statement.
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It submitted a $2.6 billion bid this month to privatize Chinese department store operator Intime Retail Group, saying it intended to use data to digitize offline shopping.
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The drive to privatize the Air Traffic Control function within the National Airspace System is moving forward at an unprecedented pace with legislation currently pending before Congress.
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Guedes is keen to privatize an array of state enterprises, including units of oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) and power utility Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA (Eletrobras).
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HONG KONG — Dalian Wanda Group of China said Thursday that it may privatize its commercial property company in a deal that could be worth about $4 billion.
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Guedes is keen to privatize an array of state enterprises, including units of oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) and power utility Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA (Eletrobras).
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Price will also likely push to privatize public health as much as possible, according to Charles Bullock, an expert on Southern politics at the University of Georgia.
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So, too, is Bolsonaro's plan to privatize a string of Brazil's state-owned companies and loosen environmental restrictions to make way for more mining, ranching and farming.
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The railway began operating in 1997 after the L.I.R.R. decided to privatize freight operations on its lines, which are part of the country's busiest commuter railroad system.
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The most famous effort has been from Elon Musk, whose SpaceX is trying to privatize space, and he recently launched and landed a spacecraft back on earth.
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For instance, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would certainly like to privatize the nation's public schools, but she barely seems organized enough to get dressed in the morning.
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The United States has spent almost $100 billion on the space station, and even some Republicans in Congress are skeptical of the move to privatize its mission.
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And it's consistent with the history of the Trump administration, which has taken steps to slash government regulations, privatize public programs and goods, and degrade the environment.
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President Trump's proposal to privatize air traffic control would add nearly $100 billion to the federal deficit over the next 10 years, according to a new analysis.
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Tesla shares went on a wild ride Tuesday after CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter that he was hoping to privatize the company at $420 a share.
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That wasn't a controversial choice at the time, but Shulkin and the White House do have policy disputes, including on how much to privatize services for veterans.
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"It's just another way for the locals to privatize the coastline," said Michael Connor, 26, who lives in Rumson and has been surfing since he was 6.
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The decade also saw the government privatize the Department of Energy's uranium enrichment operations, in the process transferring 22017,000 metric tons of uranium to the new company.
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I was still working there in the winter of 2004-'05 when the hot issue in Washington became George W. Bush's proposal to partially privatize Social Security.
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Recall what happened when Bush was reelected in 2004 with his biggest Senate majority yet (55 votes) and claimed he'd gotten a mandate to privatize Social Security.
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The union says Beutner and school board members who voted him in are trying to privatize the district, encouraging school closures and flipping public schools into charters.
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Trump also announced plans earlier this month to privatize air traffic control, a move that could expedite when drone delivery in the U.S. actually comes to fruition.
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A new update to Google Photos will now let you archive photos from the main feed and hide them away, helping you declutter and privatize some personal photos.
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Darrell Issa, the former head of the House Oversight Committee, argued this week that it was time to privatize all airport security in order to reduce wait times.
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This argument ignores the oversight board's power to institute growth reforms, including the potential to cut government headcount and privatize services currently monopolized by under-performing public agencies.
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Doing so would, in essence, privatize the profitable elements of transit service (those routes with high ridership), while forcing the public sector to pick up the slack elsewhere.
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The administration also proposes to privatize the nation's air traffic control system, which budget documents suggest would boost the budget deficit by about $45 billion over 10 years.
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Local ports have gained extra allure in the wake of a government drive to privatize infrastructure in Latin America's largest economy, even if global maritime activity remains tepid.
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President Trump's choice to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, David Shulkin, will firmly pledge Wednesday not to privatize the agency, a top concern of many veterans' organizations.
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The push to privatize air traffic control, largely supported by U.S. airlines and long backed by some congressional Republicans, would separate the function from the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Clinton has proposed expanding Social Security while ramping up costs for the wealthy and opposing efforts to privatize it or reduce benefits for middle- and low-income Americans.
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Some favor state ownership of the means of production, while others want to privatize prisons; some seek to put politics under religious tutelage, while others are stridently secular.
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But Mr. Maduro, who succeeded Hugo Chávez, went on television and rejected the effort, describing the move as a bid to undermine him and privatize the hospital system.
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Make no mistake, if our federal public lands were given to the states – the intent is to privatize and sell to the highest bidder America's natural legacy. Sens.
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You mention in the book that the Clinton administration was discussing plans to partly privatize Social Security when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, which was news to me.
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There has been a lot of discussion lately about the push by some members of Congress to privatize the Air Traffic Control function in the Federal Aviation Administration.
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In a context of rising inequality, where the forces of capital quietly but relentlessly privatize gain and socialize pain, a focus on the common good is usefully disruptive.
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Earlier this week, a state-run energy company in the state of Piaui was sold in what was considered the kick-off of the process to privatize Eletrobras.
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Deputy Finance Minister Eduardo Guardia and Energy Minister Fernando Coelho said the government expects to send a bill to privatize Eletrobras, as the company is known, next week.
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Costa Neto, who was appointed by suspended President Dilma Rousseff, is opposed to interim President Michel Temer's plan to privatize assets including Eletrosul and Furnas, the source said.
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The lawsuit focuses on a statement Musk made on Twitter saying funding for the deal to privatize the company had been "secured," but claims that statement was false.
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The listing is part of a strategy by the UAE, as well as other Gulf nations, to privatize energy sector assets, particularly amid a lower oil price environment.
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The Bundy movement seems to have internalized this crackpot legal doctrine, and the Bundys in turn helped fuel the well-heeled corporate-led effort to privatize public lands.
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With the onset of the economic crisis, a different approach from the earlier publicly funded models was adopted — to effectively privatize the site and the adjacent waterfront area.
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It's about a GOP that wants to privatize our VA. It's about the 1-in-10 vets who depend on Medicaid, that GOP wants to cut, and more.
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On Monday, Rossello surprised Wall Street by announcing plans to privatize PREPA over the next 18 months, an endeavor that will need approval of Puerto Rico's bankruptcy judge.
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In response to this, we voiced support of true policy efforts to privatize our air traffic control system that better reflect the ideals of privatization and urged Rep.
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And grandparents who worry about retirement deserve a president who will protect and then expand social security for those who need it most, not cut or privatize it.
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Ukraine's finance minister last week said the failure to privatize OPP had sent a bad signal, but added he was confident the process would succeed at the next attempt.
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The bill will keep the agency operating for another six months as Congress debates whether to privatize the country's air traffic control system and considers new airline passenger protections.
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He moved the country away from the policies of the socialist government that preceded him and moved to privatize state firms and take loans from the International Monetary Fund.
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SAO PAULO, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Investors eyeing Brazil's auction to privatize state-owned utility Celg-D said its heavy debt and the high minimum price could jeopardize the Aug.
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His role — not previously disclosed — in the effort to secretly privatize intelligence operations underscores the clout and influence of those pushing the Trump administration to take these unusual steps.
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Both adamantly said they would never privatize the Department of Veterans Affairs, and criticized Republican votes and efforts by the "Koch brothers" against veterans aid bills in the Senate.
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Also in April, the firm confirmed plans to dilute its stake in Petrobras Distribuidora via a follow-on offering in a process that is expected to privatize the unit.
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On Monday, government Secretary Adalberto Vasconcelos, who has been tasked with creating public-private infrastructure partnerships, said the country would privatize more airports and secure new investment for railways.
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Crapo's plan would privatize Fannie and Freddie, and would invite private competition in the mortgage guarantor market by placing limits on how many mortgages any one entity can guarantee.
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Abu Dhabi's national oil company last week unveiled details of ADNOC Distribution's listing, as Gulf states step up plans to privatize energy assets in an era of cheap oil.
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Its shares have jumped 51 percent in the last 3 months, boosted by investors' expectations that president-elect Jair Bolsonaro will go ahead with plans to privatize the company.
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The Trump administration is planning to privatize the international space station instead of simply decommissioning the orbiting international experiment in 2024, according to a report in The Washington Post.
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New proposals announced by the Trump Administration and Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin should dispel any doubt about the administration's intentions to privatize the Veterans Health Administration.
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Shuster has championed a plan backed by Trump to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system, but it has faced opposition in Congress and was not approved last year.
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Right now trying to privatize many of the public sector entities while it's not done in the way I believe it's the best way which is like full privatization.
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The Trump administration is not the first to try to privatize low-Earth orbit and the space station—that honor goes to Ronald Reagan, the other celebrity-turned-president.
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The decision to privatize Puerto Rico's state-owned power company follows the same dangerous path mapped out in the Trump administration's draft infrastructure plan that ends in unaffordable water.
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The state owns about 66 percent of Bankia, the fourth largest Spanish bank and 65 percent of smaller lender BMN and plans to privatize them both before December 2019.
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And Trump's "strict" action on aviation involved backing a controversial proposal to privatize air traffic control nationwide, which stalled out in the House late last year, per The Hill.
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Under consideration on the House side is Trump's proposal to privatize the air traffic control system, while the Senate transportation committee advanced a bill earlier this summer without it.
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SAO PAULO, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro will on Tuesday sign off on a plan to privatize state-controlled Brazilian power company Eletrobras SA, the company said.
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Hildenbrand, tasked with stemming losses so the government can privatize the carrier, said at the time there appeared to be confusion within the government about how aircraft leasing works.
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The move comes at a time when some oil producing countries are trying to privatize their oil companies to offset falling revenue in the face of slumping oil prices.
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A documentary details the firm's struggle in the former Soviet republic and its attempt to privatize energy delivery, as the U.S. company took over the formerly state-run institution.
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In his first year as Democratic leader, when the party, like now, was in the minority, he helped defeat President George W. Bush's plan to partially privatize Social Security.
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Veterans groups and Democrats fear the White House wants to essentially privatize veterans health care, which they warn would not be able to address the unique challenges veterans face.
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New York City, following the lead of other cities, is tapping into similar programs to effectively privatize the day-to-day management of one-third of its housing stock.
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When Republicans hatched the idea to "personalize" (meaning privatize) Social Security in 6900, 2628 percent of Americans opposed relying on the stock market with no defined benefits for retirement.
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But the proposal could accelerate the administration's attempts to privatize the mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which continue to play an outsize role in the housing market.
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In her highly partisan hearing, Ms. DeVos was criticized by Democrats for wanting to "privatize" public education but praised by Republicans for her support of charter schools and vouchers.
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While Beto has not taken any action to raise the retirement age, he has opposed efforts to raise the retirement age and voted against measures to privatize Social Security.
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As House minority leader, she helped derail President George W. Bush's efforts to privatize Social Security by ignoring the conventional wisdom that Democrats needed to offer an alternative plan.
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Mr. López Obrador has been a fierce opponent of attempts to privatize the oil industry, but he has said he will respect existing contracts and the rule of law.
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Fillon outlined his new policy in Tuesday's edition of the Le Parisien newspaper, saying he had never intended to privatize healthcare and had now reworked his program on the issue.
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But he will argue the system has been corrupted by wealthy activists who spent millions to privatize these schools, leaving them unaccountable and draining funds from the public school system.
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HONG KONG — New World Development, a Hong Kong property company, offered on Wednesday to privatize New World China Land, its property developer unit, in a deal worth about $2.8 billion.
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This was despite criticisms that Shorten was over-reaching by arguing the government was intending to fully privatize Medicare rather than merely substantially cutting benefits and increasing user-pays contributions.
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The current problems take root in Iran's faltering efforts to privatize its state-planned economy after the devastating war with Iraq in the 1980s, which saw 1 million people killed.
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Abu Dhabi's national oil company earlier this month unveiled details of ADNOC Distribution's listing, as Gulf states step up plans to privatize energy assets in an era of cheap oil.
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The government opted to privatize Centrais Elétricas Brasileira SA, or Eletrobras, after divergences mounted with management over how to fix the company, four people familiar with the plan told Reuters.
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But the fact that Bush failed to privatize Social Security and Trump failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act tends to further support Pierson's original analysis of Thatcher and Reagan.
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The approach has been to let prices slide, keep market share, tighten fiscal belts, defend local currency pegs to the U.S. dollar, and borrow or privatize to finance budget gaps.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel aggressively pushed to privatize 2311 in 2311, telling journalists it would save the city "about a million dollars a year" to run the system using contractors.
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In the interview with Fox News, Wilkie noted such a move would need support from Capitol Hill and said the agency's growing budget does not reflect a move to privatize.
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When Clinton refuses to sign legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act or cut taxes regressively or privatize Medicare, Republicans can attach those measures to legislation increasing the debt limit.
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Bolsonaro said he would work to open up Brazil's relatively closed economy, reduce and simplify taxes, privatize state companies and give his new justice minister the tools to tackle corruption.
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He has proposed leveraging $200 billion in government spending into $1 trillion of projects to privatize the air traffic control system, strengthen rural infrastructure and repair bridges, roads and waterways.
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Pelosi gained the Speaker's gavel in 2006 after Democrats beat down President George W. Bush's plan in 2005 to privatize Social Security, something the Democratic leader is reminding her caucus.
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The association looked at an experience in Florida, where the state-run wind insurer, Florida's Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, began to privatize, ultimately reducing its policies by more than half.
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All that's left is an effort to privatize things that can make profits 2/ To be sure, this budget is largely aspirational because Congress, not the president, determines the budget.
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"We're gonna stand up against efforts to privatize Social Security and we'll look for ways to keep it solvent going forward, focusing primarily on the payroll tax cap," he said.
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It was partly privatize a year ago and is now focusing on asset management, parcel delivery and transaction banking to grow and offset a drastic fall in traditional postal services.
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President Jair Bolsonaro's pledges to tackle corruption, overhaul the country's pension system and privatize state firms should help support medium- to long-term growth despite the international challenges, Goldfajn said.
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In the two major experiments to privatize air traffic control operations we have seen to date (in Canada and the United Kingdom), massive bailouts were required to keep operations solvent.
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Pelosi is likening that effort to former President George W. Bush's proposal to privatize Social Security during the 2006 cycle — a push that helped Democrats attract senior voters that year.
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His allies deny that the bills, approved late last week but still requiring a final vote, would privatize services or would lead to mass layoffs, another fear of the protesters.
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She's comparing the dynamic to that of twelve years ago, when the Democrats made President George W. Bush's proposal to privatize Social Security a central part of their successful campaign.
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Polls that year suggested that voter frustration over the Iraq war, Mr. Bush's proposal to privatize Social Security and the Republican-controlled Congress's scant achievements outweighed the positive economic backdrop.
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She fought bitterly with him over the Iraq War and his attempts to privatize Social Security, and the heads of her House committees investigated his administration from top to bottom.
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Possibly. So the idea that Social Security will go broke is an idea promulgated by people who want to privatize it, people who want to cut benefits for older people.
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Sullenberger's opinion could hold some sway in the heated debate over whether Congress should privatize air traffic control, with lawmakers often holding up his stance on other aviation safety issues.
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The aim of Vision 2030 is to privatize the defense sector as well as agriculture, education and health care and to sell off chunks of the oil giant Saudi Aramco.
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News of the documents forced Prime Minister Boris Johnson to deny that his party planned to privatize the health service, though his government acknowledged that the leaked materials were genuine.
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Some readers may recall George W. Bush's attempt to privatize Social Security, in which he claimed a "mandate" from voters despite having run a campaign entirely focused on other issues.
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Democrats are mobilizing liberal groups against a Republican proposal to privatize large portions of the nation's air traffic control system, despite the problems the FAA has experienced with NextGen. Rep.
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Union leaders at PREPA have spearheaded opposition to any talk of privatization, falsely claiming that the power authority's poor management is part of a deliberate scheme to privatize the organization.
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The city seems torn between enforcing its new guidelines, which protect pedestrians, cyclists and mass transportation, and favoring businesses that want to privatize public spaces to the advantage of automobiles.
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The Senate rejected a measure to privatize air traffic control earlier this year, after the importance of passing other provisions in the bill outweighed stretching the contentious debate any longer.
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President Donald Trump announced his plan to privatize the air traffic controllers system, which would essentially hand over operations of the airways from the federal government to a nonprofit corporation.
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Surrogates will accuse Trump of scamming veterans through his scandal-ridden Trump University, criticize his plan to partially privatize veterans' medical care and will raise Trump's assertion last summer that Sen.
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Major Projects Minister Paul Fletcher said the A$5 billion Asset Recycling Initiative, which requires state and territory governments to privatize assets to fund their share, would have an economic impact.
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He's been working to frame the agency in a best light possible, only to attract the attention of an even worse enemy: a British government looking for public services to privatize.
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Such issues reinforced the perception that Turnbull had shifted position, and so could also not be trusted when he denied government plans to privatize Medicare or initiate cuts to penalty rates.
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Temer opted to privatize Centrais Elétricas Brasileira SA , the nation's largest power utility, after divergences mounted with management over how to fix the company, four people familiar told Reuters this week.
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Trump's proposal to privatize U.S. air traffic control wins the backing of major U.S. airlines, but drew criticism from other groups concerned smaller airlines and private companies would lose airport access.
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Shulkin, currently the VA's under secretary of health, firmly stated in his opening statement what many veterans groups had wanted to hear -- that he would not privatize the VA if confirmed.
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That's true even for cash-strapped cities like Detroit, whose water and sewer system is one of its more valuable assets — making officials reluctant to fully privatize the system, he added.
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The Russian government is planning to privatize state banking assets but the timing is not so good, the president of VTB Bank, one of Russia's largest lenders, told CNBC on Wednesday.
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The chief executive of Russia's second largest crude oil producer told CNBC on Thursday that he fully supported calls from the Kremlin's former finance minister to privatize the country's oil companies.
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Indeed, there's a battle over how Puerto Rico will be rebuilt given that it has $74 billion in municipal debt, and the island's governor has moved to privatize the power authority.
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The IMF mission also said it supported government efforts to privatize state-owned Komercijalna Banka bank, as well as its bid to dispose of the loss-making HIP Petrohemija chemical plant.
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The administration's formal budget proposal unveiled in May that included plans to privatize the nation's air traffic control system would boost the budget deficit by about $45 billion over 10 years.
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In a statement released in early April, the VA shot down the idea, saying "there is no effort underway to privatize" veterans' care and that "to suggest otherwise is completely false."
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Mr. Temer seems to be embracing a more conservative disposition for his government as well, with the country's business establishment pressuring him to privatize state-controlled companies and cut public spending.
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In 2005, Ryan co-sponsored a bill to privatize Social Security, around the time that George W. Bush announced that Social Security was "headed for bankruptcy," though the bill went nowhere.
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Shulkin, who has been the VA's undersecretary of health since 2015, flatly pledged not to privatize the VA, while promising change despite the fact that he is an Obama administration holdover.
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Eletrobras, as the company is commonly known, said the value was updated in accordance to the new guidelines presented by the government as part of plan to privatize several state assets.
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No. Despite Trump's campaign promises not to cut Social Security, the statements he made prior to running for office showed he considered it a Ponzi scheme and wanted to privatize it.
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Shareholders of Telsa are already reportedly unhappy with Musk's loose cannon behavior, which has recently included tweeting a plan to re-privatize the company, and openly smoking marijuana on a podcast.
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The proposal starts with the least favorable public opinion landscape of any major legislative initiative since President George W. Bush's attempt to partially privatize the Social Security system in December 2004.
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"NASA's current plan to privatize the ISS remains a controversial and highly debatable proposition, particularly with regard to the feasibility of fostering increased commercial activity in low Earth orbit," he said.
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Trump on Monday pushed Congress to privatize the air traffic control system, though the event he held was largely symbolic because lawmakers would need to pass a plan to do so.
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Xi spoke about reforming state-owned companies, but didn't suggest that he intended to privatize them as part of a bid to make China into a more conventional free market economy.
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"Wall Street executives, Silicon Valley C.E.O.s and billionaires like Secretary DeVos and the Walton family have been using charter schools as a way to privatize the public education system," he said.
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The decision to privatize Eletrobras could have negative implications for the company's debt ratings because the process introduces uncertainty over state support, Moody's analyst Cristiane Spercel said in a Tuesday note.
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"I think that he doesn't know the pressure he'll get from the Koch brothers, from the President himself and [vice president] Pence, because they want to privatize the VA," Brown said.
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But it was a hard policy issue -- how much to privatize the health care of veterans -- that ultimately seems to have created an irreparable rift between Shulkin and the White House.
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The Left Party wants to stop the government's plan to privatize part of the Public Employment Service, which matches employers with people seeking work and organizes training schemes for the unemployed.
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When examining exactly how it purports to privatize the ATC, it's clear that the federal government will still play the leading role in the life of whatever new entity is created.
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Mr. Wilkie has repeatedly said his goal is not to privatize veterans' health care, but would not provide details of his proposal when asked at a hearing before Congress in December.
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He also persuaded the New York State Legislature to sweeten pension benefits, swayed the city not to privatize municipal hospitals, and won a three-year guarantee of job security in 1995.
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Xi spoke about reforming state-owned companies but didn't suggest that he intended to privatize them as part of a bid to make China into a more conventional free market economy.
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It has accelerated its plans, and began this year by announcing that it would privatize almost half of Vinafood II, Vietnam's main rice exporter, raising about $100 million, within three months.
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Tester said he wants Trump to nominate someone else who will "push back against the folks who are going to privatize the VA." Trump is believed to have fired VA Secretary David ShulkinDavid Jonathon ShulkinPress: Acosta, latest to walk the plank Senior Trump administration official to leave post next week Trump sent policy pitch from Mar-a-Lago member to VA secretary: report MORE in part because he did not support efforts to privatize more of the agency's mission.
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Prominent national veterans organizations came out against Jackson when his nomination was first announced, fearing he would bow to conservative pressure to privatize the VA and displeased that he lacked managerial experience.
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But recently, efforts by Ethiopia's firebrand prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, to modernize the economy, privatize state-owned companies and reduce the country's debt burden are shifting the power dynamics in the country.
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Here's what you need to know about the White House Office of American Innovation: Key tasks: Overhaul care for veterans, fight opioid addiction, burnish Trump's legacy, potentially privatize some aspects of government.
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LEN OLIVER, WASHINGTON To the Editor: David J. Shulkin wants the world to believe that he was fired because of a grand conspiracy within the Trump administration to privatize veterans' health care.
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Emphasizing the need to both further militarize and privatize space as a new war-fighting domain, Pence stressed that the new branch of the military is targeted for a 2020 implementation date.
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Hildenbrand, who had been tasked with stemming losses at PIA so the government can privatize the carrier, said there appears to be some confusion within the ministry about how airplane leases work.
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Brazil's markets were coming off a strong showing on Wednesday, helped by reports President Jair Bolsonaro wanted to privatize state-owned oil company Petrobras before the end of his term in 23373.6.
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Athens had to privatize TRAINOSE or shut the firm and return about 700 million euros to the European Union in state subsidies that the country extended to the company in the past.
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Any initial government reluctance to privatize public assets seems to have dissipated, not least because Greece has such a steep hill to climb to get its debt-ridden economy back on track.
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Atiku, 72, had said he would aim to double the size of the economy to $900 billion by 2025, privatize the state oil company and expand the role of the private sector.
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That explains why we've been treated to decades of high-profile debate over whether to privatize and make cuts to Social Security, while issues like wage boards are in large part ignored.
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It also includes a plan to privatize the telecommunications sector and an overhaul of the costly and crumbling electricity sector, which poses one of the biggest strains on the country's depleted finances.
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It also includes a plan to privatize the telecommunications sector and an overhaul of the costly and crumbling electricity sector, which poses one of the biggest strains on the country's depleted finances.
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President Trump will reportedly introduce a plan on Monday to privatize the air traffic control functions of the Federal Aviation Administration this week as part of a broader push for infrastructure reform.
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Despite some initial success, the process stalled in 2016 after staff protests caused havoc with PIA operations and the government passed a law that effectively made it impossible to privatize the airline.
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And the Conservative Party has long been the party of big business and the very wealthy, and pushed to break the unions, privatize the public sector, and cut taxes for the rich.
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Shulkin, who has been the VA's undersecretary of health since 22019, flatly pledged not to privatize the agency, while also promising change despite the fact that he is an Obama administration holdover.
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In the manifesto, Abubakar said he would privatize government-owned crude refineries, issue new licenses for greenfield investments in refineries and consider re-introducing bidding rounds for marginal fields and oil blocks.
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Separately, Garneau said the government was looking at a recommendation that it privatize airports, but that "it's not a front-burner exercise" and people should not jump to any conclusions, CBC said.
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Tom Price (R-Ga.), Trump's pick to head the Health and Human Services Department, is also in the liberals' sights for promoting long-held GOP efforts to repeal ObamaCare and privatize Medicare.
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Americans have voted with their feet: Even after 22019 years of debate, advocacy, and research into mechanisms designed to privatize education, roughly 90 percent of our kids still attend traditional public schools.
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On Sunday, White House officials told the media that Monday would kick off "Infrastructure Week," an effort to privatize America's air traffic control system, and many of its roads, bridges, and tunnels.
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The IMF has urged Ukraine to privatize state enterprises but the first company to be put on the block, a fertilizer producer in Odessa, attracted no bids at an auction in July.
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During the town hall, the Vermont senator initially said that the scandal wasn't real and had been manufactured by the Koch brothers in order to privatize the VA. View the discussion thread.
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Many of the major groups in attendance, including the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, have criticized Shulkin's ouster and the administration's push to privatize medical care services, the Times noted.
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The erroneous claim that President Obama is "giving away the Internet" refers to a process our government started nearly 20 years ago to privatize management of the Domain Name System, or DNS.
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That seems to be stepping up the likelihood that lawmakers will have to pass a short-term extension for the FAA, which would doom efforts to privatize air traffic control this year.
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She also, for instance, let Mr. Kaine say Mr. Trump wants to privatize Social Security based on his book of 16 years ago; he has proposed no such thing in this campaign.
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She separately told the paper that she also has "reservations" about a possible push to privatize Medicare and is undecided on whether to repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement plan.
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"I want to know that he's going to oppose privatization, not privatize the VA. And I want to know how he's going to manage one of our largest agencies," Murray told CNN.
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We've veered towards an economics that allows some people to stockpile and privatize their access to good services, while others are increasingly left in the cold, or just plain out of luck.
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Mr. Shah cited Mr. Trump's push to privatize air traffic control and the Department of Homeland Security's guidelines for enhanced screening of passengers and electronics on flights bound for the United States.
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During that period Kuczynski faced major protests against his plan to privatize electricity companies, as well as accusations of cronyism when he sought changes to gas laws that benefited an old employer.
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"What you're looking at under the leadership of the Koch brothers is a massive effort to privatize agencies of the United States government and give them over to private corporations," Sanders said.
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The most serious attempt to privatize Social Security took place in 2005, when President George W. Bush decided to expend political capital from his successful reelection campaign on this longheld conservative goal.
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John Nicholson, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, and a proposal to privatize large portions of the war, have shaken top commanders and their allies in the Afghan government and security forces.
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As you may know, there's a quiet, ongoing push in the U.S. to privatize the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) — and schools, and even air traffic control — but lawmakers like presidential candidate Sen.
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The chairman, who on Tuesday announced he was dropping his push to privatize air traffic control, noted that Congress must soon pass both an appropriations bill and the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization.
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"With the highways, we saw that when you privatize it is no longer the common good that prevails, it is the pursuit of profit," said 60-year-old petition signatory Martine Louaire.
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Will he support House Majority Leader Paul Ryan's conventionally conservative agenda to block-grant and privatize entitlement spending, or will he push the Republican Party in a new, possibly more controversial direction?
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John Sununu (R-NH) to privatize Social Security, a plan so large in scale that that the private accounts it created would wind up owning every stock and bond in the United States.
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The Browder book recounts his and his former lawyer Sergei Magnitsky's experience in Russia in the 1990s-2000s as it began to privatize economic sectors, moving from communism to an oligarch-dominated dictatorship.
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Because Michigan's Republican governor Rick Snyder wanted to privatize the state's water system, Snyder in 2014 switched the water supply for the predominantly black Flint from Lake Huron to the polluted Flint River.
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Bolsonaro's influential economy minister, Paulo Guedes, has said that the government is going full steam ahead with plans to privatize an array of state companies and public assets, saying "everything" is for sale.
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Should the new president unwind Temer's measures to cut red tape and privatize state companies, Brazil's real would trade closer to 3.50 to the dollar, said Jason Vieira, chief economist at Infinity Asset.
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Jet isn't the only Indian airline in dire straits — the country's national carrier, Air India, is surviving on billions of dollars of taxpayer money after a failed attempt to privatize it last year.
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The White House then proposed a plan to privatize the service, and Amazon joined a new retailer lobby to oppose raising shipping costs, putting Trump and Amazon in a more traditional political conflict.
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Musk's plan to privatize Tesla has also sparked no less than five lawsuits from shareholders who claim that the CEO's erratic and apparently unplanned announcement manipulated the company's stock price to their detriment.
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Without major shifts in government space policy to privatize current infrastructure and competitively outsource to primarily US-owned companies, our current industry will slowly die out with nothing "American" available to replace it.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan will try to privatize its national airline before general elections due this year, privatization minister Daniyal Aziz said, as the ruling party seeks to restart sales of state-run businesses.
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The bill, which now goes to the Senate, will extend this for another six months as Congress debates whether to privatize the country's air traffic control system and considers new airline passenger protections.
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Some would like to end the new public-private partnership and just return to the old ways of doing things at VA. Others would like to totally privatize VA. Both miss the mark.
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Trump's working-class supporters furiously reject the GOP's support for free trade, overseas investment, and large-scale immigration, and they oppose Republican calls to privatize New Deal programs like Social Security and Medicare.
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund praised Serbia's strong economic performance in 2018 and said on Monday it agreed with government plans to privatize a major bank and a loss-making petrochemical plant.
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Atiku has promised to create jobs, privatize the state oil company and double the size of the economy to $900 billion by 2025, mostly by handing a larger role to the private sector.
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"The memo released by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service is clear — as written, the plan to privatize our nation's air traffic control system violates the U.S. Constitution in several ways," DeFazio said.
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At the same time, the party establishment had nothing to offer hard-pressed, working-class Republican voters except discredited bromides about tax cuts, deregulation and plans to slash Medicare and privatize Social Security.
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It would give massive tax breaks to Wall Street investors and corporations to privatize our water systems and other critical infrastructure, leading to rate hikes and job loss, while sacrificing transparency and accountability.
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"We will not dismantle or privatize the VA. We will expand and improve the VA," Sanders, a U.S. senator and a former chairman of the Senate's Veterans' Affairs Committee, said in a statement.
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And Republican leaders including House Speaker Paul Ryan routinely toss around insolvency as a justification for schemes to further privatize Medicare by sending seniors into an insurance marketplace with vouchers to buy coverage.
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In addition, Albania recently has attempted to privatize a good deal of its domestic energy sector to attract foreign investment in the exploration and development of the nation's proven oil and gas reserves.
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Some of the exchanges could have been resurrected almost verbatim from the 1992 or 2000 campaigns: Mr. Kaine attacked Mr. Pence for seeking to privatize Social Security and to limit access to abortions.
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The official said Subramanian was kept out of the loop when Modi suddenly demonetized high-value currency notes in 2016, and that the adviser's recommendation to privatize some state-run banks was rejected.
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"Newsflash: Paul Ryan just announced that he wants to privatize Medicare," Michael Kazin, a professor at Georgetown University, interjected during a discussion of the political implications of the Affordable Care Act's policy design.
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His plans to partially privatize some state enterprises have piqued the interest of foreign multinationals hoping to profit from market of 100 million people, and should breathe life into the debt-laden economy.
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Leaders of the incorporation effort promised to build a lean city government that would privatize many functions and that would continue to rely on the parish for some services, like the Sheriff's Department.
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Legislation that would privatize air-traffic control would also ban in-flight phone calls, require airlines to reimburse luggage fees to passengers if bags arrive late, and change how new aircraft are approved.
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Trump in March signed an order to overhaul the federal government and tapped Kushner to lead a White House Office of American Innovation to leverage business ideas and potentially privatize some government functions.
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"If you can privatize land purchased with Land and Water Conservation dollars, you're jeopardizing most of our national parks," said Greg Remaud, the director of the NY/NJ Baykeeper, a nonprofit conservation organization.
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"If you can privatize land purchased with Land and Water Conservation dollars, you're jeopardizing most of our national parks," said Greg Remaud, the director of the NY/NJ Baykeeper, a nonprofit conservation organization.
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Investors are taking a wait-and-see attitude to Puerto Rico's Governor Ricardo Rossello's recent proposal to privatize parts of the bankrupt Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) over the next 18-months.
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BRASILIA, Sept 19 (Reuters) - There is little political appetite to privatize Brazil's state-run power firm Eletrobras and legislators will instead focus on other possible privatizations, the president of the nation's Senate said.
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Roosevelt standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon, asking us to "leave it as it is" and end miners' efforts to privatize the great abyss with speculative claims from river to rim.
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PRITZKER HAILS 'IMPORTANT MILESTONE': "Today's announcement marks an important milestone in the U.S. government's 18-year effort to privatize the Internet's domain name system," Secretary of Commerce Penny PritzkerPenny Sue PritzkerDNC hauls in .
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BVSP had jumped 3.1 percent in the first 10 minutes of opening trading, fueled by hopes that Bolsonaro will make good on his pledges to privatize state firms and close a budget gap.
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Two House Democrats are mobilizing liberal groups against a Republican proposal to privatize large portions of the nation's air traffic control system in a funding measure for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Rep.
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In general a veteran couldn't get coverage for routine care from a doctor who didn't work directly for the V.A., but recent policy changes have started to privatize more health care for veterans.
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Erik Prince, whose company came to prominence during the war in Iraq, has been lobbying officials about his proposal to privatize parts of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan for more than a year.
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Instead, he relished in applause for signing a nonbinding letter to Congress outlining his wish to privatize air traffic control — which no one on Capitol Hill seems hell bent on paying attention to.
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Influential labor leaders, sections of the ANC and the opposition Economic Freedom Fighters are also likely to balk at any moves to partially privatize the companies, which is one strategy backed by the Treasury.
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Representative Paul Ryan tested the limits of operational liberalism with the budgets he put forward beginning in 2011, with a plan to privatize Medicare for "future retirees" and specific cuts to discretionary spending programs.
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As finance minister, his key policies included moves to partly privatize several state-owned energy firms and Air New Zealand, cutting personal tax and corporate tax rates and increasing the goods and services tax.
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Abromavicius's exit could derail plans to privatize around 100 state-owned companies, which were a plank of a reform program to turn around an economy which shrank by more than a tenth last year.
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Confusion has been created about an airport privatization process after some local media reported that the government intended to privatize 27 of them by the middle of 2018, a target analysts said was unrealistic.
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Saudi Arabia's "Vision 2030," which includes plans to create the world's biggest sovereign wealth fund, privatize state-owned companies and attract more tourists, joins a host of similarly named programs from other Gulf states.
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Along with slashing funding at five government departments, the new budget would privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and eliminate both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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The fight continues, both for Montanans facing future efforts to privatize our land and for the nation at large battling to resist our government on climate change, immigration, women's rights, health care, and more.
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Just on Monday, the President's transatlantic Twitter tirade overshadowed his announcement of a plan to privatize air traffic control, a huge initiative for his administration, and an attempt to improve health care for veterans.
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A White House official also said Saturday that Trump's plan would also look to put more control in the hands of local governments to privatize their previously built infrastructure, something Democrats will likely oppose.
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Saudi Arabia hired HSBC as financial adviser to privatize construction and management of school buildings, the chief executive of Tatweer Buildings Co, a state firm affiliated with the Ministry of Education, said in January.
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President Boris Yeltsin's shift to a market economy was so abrupt that cash-rich gangsters and corrupt government officials were able to privatize and loot state-held assets in oil, coal, minerals, and banking.
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It hopes to privatize the nuclear plant project after it paid more than 600 million euros ($652 million) in compensation to Russia's state nuclear giant Rosatom when it canceled the 10 billion euro project.
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Charter school opponents and unions point to what has happened here as proof that the reformers' goal is just to privatize education and strip families of their voice in local schools across the country.
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Fastest growing economy Another major announcement by the new government center around plans to liberalize the economy, including decisions to privatize fully or partially lucrative state enterprises such as aviation, energy, telecommunication, and manufacturing.
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The top ranking lawmakers on the Senate Appropriations Committee are looking to ground a House Republican proposal to privatize large portions of the nation's air traffic control system before it takes off in Congress.
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Leading veterans organizations opposed Hegseth, however, saying he supported a plan that would in effect privatize the VA by shifting resources away from the department to allow all veterans to seek private health care.
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Lula has criticized President Michel Temer's efforts to curb the growth of public debt, cut social security spending and privatize, which ratings agencies have called critical for Brazil to regain its investment grade status.
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Israel's Elbit Systems has agreed to buy IMI Systems, a weapons maker known for Uzi submachine guns, for around $523 million from the Israeli government (which announced plans to privatize IMI back in 2013).
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LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Slovenia said on Wednesday that its second biggest bank Nova KBM (NKBM) will buy the country's No. 3 lender Abanka after submitting the winning bid in a scheme to privatize the lender.
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Outgoing Secretary David Shulkin revealed yesterday that he had fought Trump administration proposals to privatize services provided by the V.A. — a move that could undermine the quality of health care provided to our veterans.
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I'll be astonished if there are bipartisan deals on anything important — even on infrastructure, where both sides claim to want action but what the G.O.P. really wants is an excuse to privatize public assets.
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When Prince Mohammed announced his highly ambitious national transformation plan in 226, he promised to privatize state assets, create 22014 million jobs in the private sector and cut unemployment to 292 percent by 22017.
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But the charter school "movement" is objectively a corporate effort determined to privatize K-12 education in the United States, in part by defunding traditional public schools and public school children to support charters.
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While funding to build more public housing is eliminated altogether, and funding to sustain existing public housing is either cut or eliminated, programs intended to privatize public housing are increased under the proposed budget.
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On one hand, we have the traditionalists who maintain that the great Fannie and Freddie policy "sin" was allowing them to privatize and manage their own portfolio risk while maintaining an implied federal guarantee.
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Speaking via teleconference to an investor conference in New York on Tuesday, Mourao said Bolsonaro wants to privatize the fuel distribution unit of state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA, sending its shares higher.
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But there's a reason you've heard these tales: They've been systematically spread by politicians and right-wing organizations that seize on problem cases as part of a drive to dismantle and privatize the system.
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We hear the powerful and wealthy preach a conservative chant of "freedom from big government," when they are really paving the way to privatize everything, with the constant, gluttonous end goal of greater profits.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The founder of private military contractor Blackwater is trying to interest U.S. intelligence agencies in his plan to privatize counter-terrorism operations in Afghanistan, even though the Trump administration earlier rejected the idea.
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Trump is narrowly correct, in some sense, that Medicare-as-we-know-it would no longer exist — but he is borrowing the line that Democrats have used to criticize Republican plans to fully privatize Medicare.
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Sanders said Trump "has raised the bar for our nation's aviation safety and security," citing his proposal to privatize air traffic control, which has not been approved, and the Homeland Security Department's enhanced security measures.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's proposal to privatize U.S. air traffic control won the backing of major U.S. airlines, but drew criticism from other groups concerned smaller airlines and private companies would lose airport access.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's agriculture ministry believes that it would be premature to privatize the state's stake in grain trader United Grain Company, the RBC daily reported on Friday, citing an unnamed source at the ministry.
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Sanders vowed as well to take executive action to reject state attempts to privatize care for disabled and elderly people, citing the "disastrous" Iowa privatization of Medicaid services that has been condemned by disability advocates.
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Over the summer and fall, the White House and CIA considered a package of proposals to privatize intelligence operations, including a plan to snatch terrorists overseas in a rendition action, as BuzzFeed News first disclosed.
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Rather than blame the tech industry for Ireland's surging house prices, Kinsella says the fault lies much deeper, with successive governments' decisions to privatize the house sector over the course of the last two decades.
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Will Fischer, director of government relations for the VoteVets lobby group, said his group hopes Jackson will oppose any attempt to privatize the VA or its health services, a concept that Republicans talk about occasionally.
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A reform-minded conservative, Le Maire has steered Macron's drive to lighten the government touch on the economy and cut red-tape, and is overseeing a push to privatize airports and other state-controlled companies.
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Unlike others in the Republican primary, Trump unequivocally said that he would oppose efforts by the think tankers and establishment elites in Washington to transfer public lands to the states and privatize our park system.
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Trump's plan to privatize air traffic control could expedite drone delivery in the U.S. Finding a way to safely integrate drones in the U.S. airspace is one of the main issues holding up drone delivery.
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The basic line is that Japan has managed to privatize its rail while maintaining great customer satisfaction, while the UK has stagnated with ever higher fares and diminished service since it sold off public rail.
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His Cabinet's confirmation hearings have been a mishmash of contradictions, full of promises to make the dollar stronger and weaker, to privatize Fannie Mae and to preserve its role, to slash taxes and preserve programs.
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Mobile and IP connectivity in the country is managed by state-owned Ethio Telecom, though the government — led by newly elected Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Sahle-Work Zewde — has committed to privatize it.
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The Trump administration released a report in June proposing to privatize Fannie and Freddie while continuing to subsidize mortgage loans for less affluent home buyers through an existing program operated by the Federal Housing Administration.
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Closed and secret Facebook groups are one way teens (and adults!) privatize communication to a select group — a closed group feels more private because it allows an administrator to approve new users and monitor content.
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"We say to our Republicans that want to privatize Medicare, go try it, make our day," said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the incoming Democratic leader, mustering his best Clint Eastwood/Ronald Reagan impersonation.
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It's also arguing that Mr. Johnson could further privatize the service, or accept a trade deal with the United States that might lead to a steep increase in drug prices, claims that Mr. Johnson disputes.
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"I believe there are still many unanswered questions remaining about her tangled finances, potential conflicts of interest and plans to privatize and defund public education," said Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the committee's top Democrat.
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Democrats and veterans' advocates are concerned that the White House is taking those calls for privatizing the VA system seriously, but the VA has denied that there is any push to privatize its health system.
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NEW DELHI, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Executives at major state-run Indian companies voiced their opposition to government plans to privatize oil refiner Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd in a statement released by industry bodies on Monday.
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Adrian Dohotaru, a housing rights activist turned parliamentarian, said less than half of 80,000 applications to re-privatize homes have been finalised to date so the situation was likely to get worse without government action.
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The government announced plans to privatize Eletrobras in August, but the move depends on a series of legislative and regulatory measures, as well as the definition of the privatization model, Eletrobras said in the filing.
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President George W. Bush, far from addressing government funding problems, engaged in a short-lived movement to privatize Social Security and added an expensive prescription drug program to Medicare whose main beneficiary was older Americans.
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Nationwide demonstrations against Hernández's corrupt practices and attempts to privatize education and health care have trailed the president since April, to which the army has responded with tear gas and live fire to disperse dissenters.
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Mr. Prince, who is the brother of the United States education secretary, Betsy DeVos, has long courted controversy, most recently when he laid out a plan for President Trump to privatize the war in Afghanistan.
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Concerned Veterans for America have called for among the most radical of overhauls of the Department of Veterans' Affairs health care delivery, pushing for a proposal to privatize a portion of the VA's health care administration.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The Brazilian government plans to privatize or liquidate some 100 state-run companies, reflecting the new administration's drive to reduce the size of the state, Infrastructure Minister Tarcisio Freitas said on Tuesday.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's plan to privatize its soccer clubs could be delayed beyond the targeted 2020, the head of the country's soccer federation told Reuters, in what would be the latest setback to economic reforms.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - The governor of Sao Paulo and likely centrist presidential candidate Geraldo Alckmin said on Monday that he would privatize Brazil's state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA if he wins the elections in October.
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To meet the conditions for the loans, without which Greece would again default in July, the government introduced pension and income tax reforms, as well as measures to privatize state assets and deal with bad loans.
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Campaigners recorded major victories when the government agreed to amend sections of the bill that were deemed "anti-people," pour $185 million into rehabilitating water systems, and put plans to privatize the Lagos network on hold.
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Though the government has pledged to partially privatize several key state-owned companies, including the telecoms monopoly, the form liberalization will take and the speed with which it will be carried out have not been announced.
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Zinke is a proponent of keeping public lands under federal ownership, which puts him at odds with some in his party who would like to privatize the lands or put them under control of the states.
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Asia's top oil supplier plans to privatize state assets, cultivate non-oil private sectors and open its markets to foreign investors, after a plunge in oil prices slashed state revenues and opened a gaping budget deficit.
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He says it appeared that the pitches coincided with a widely publicized effort by Erik Prince — the private security official, founder of Blackwater, and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos — to privatize the war in Afghanistan.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's state-run oil company Petróleo Brasileiro SA expects to privatize natural gas distribution unit Liquigás next month as part of a broader divestment program, Chief Executive Roberto Castello Branco said on Thursday.
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The government sold a stake in Bankia in 2014 and in December passed a law giving until the end of 2019 to privatize the bank to try to recoup money provided under its rescue in 2012.
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The bill is vital for Rio de Janeiro state to overcome its fiscal crisis and will require states to freeze wage hikes for employees, while allowing them to privatize their banks, electrical utilities and sanitation companies.
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Founded by Uganda's former dictator Idi Amin in 1976, Uganda Airlines was liquidated in the 1990s by Museveni's government under a broader program to privatize troubled state firms and open up the economy to private enterprise.
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Vucic's attempts to privatize large state companies, many of which have bloated payrolls and big debts, met little success until this week when China's Hebei Iron & Steel agreed to buy a loss-making Serbian steel mill.
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Polling has shown strong support of infrastructure spending, and Democrats and moderate Republicans can easily coalesce around the issue regardless of whackos in the Tea Party who would prefer to privatize roads rather than repair them.
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WASHINGTON(Reuters) - President Donald Trump outlined a plan on Monday to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system to modernize outdated systems and lower the cost of flying, but the proposal faced immediate criticism from Democrats.
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They would create a $20 million fund to privatize welfare and training programs, put the photos of food stamp recipients on state-issued cards to combat fraud, and create individual health savings accounts for Medicaid recipients.
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Opponents of the Trump administration's plan to privatize air traffic control are claiming that the idea may be unconstitutional, unveiling a new line of attack against the proposal even as it remains stalled in the House.
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Prince lobbied several Afghan politicians on a recent trip to the country and has been discussing his proposal to privatize parts of the U.S. military mission in the country for over a year, according to Reuters.
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Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE's (R-Wis.) dream is to privatize Social Security and Medicare.
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Congress should simultaneously privatize the Veterans Health Administration by transferring ownership of the system's physical capital to veterans, and give current VA enrollees subsidies they can use at the newly privatized VA or other private providers.
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Shulkin, currently the VA's undersecretary of health, set the stage off the bat, firmly stating in his opening statement what many veterans groups had wanted to hear — that he would not privatize the VA if confirmed.
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Aviation groups who represent non-commercial flight operators are pleading for Congress to ground a proposal to privatize large portions of the nation's air traffic control system in a funding measure for the Federal Aviation Administration.
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"The real challenge and real problem is that if the government does proceed to privatize, the interest and the motivations for those running it will be in personal or private, not the public interest", he said.
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" And Lily E. Garcia, the president of the National Education Association, said it is necessary to stand against DeVos to oppose "a corporate agenda to privatize, de-professionalize and impose cookie-cutter solutions to public education.
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"We will fight every effort to cut, privatize or weaken Social Security, including attempts to raise the retirement age, diminish benefits by cutting cost-of-living adjustments or reducing earned benefits," the 2016 Democratic platform said.
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" But, he added, "The best defense against any effort to privatize the V.A. or send veterans in a wholesale factor to the private sector is to make sure the V.A. is living up to its promise.
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India, for instance, is eager to unearth the coal it has under the ground, and its government is seeking to privatize the coal-mining sector, including by inviting foreign bids for the first time, Reuters reported.
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Since President George W. Bush's failed 2005 effort to partially privatize Social Security, Republicans have assured retirees and those nearing retirement that any changes or cuts to entitlement programs for older adults would not affect them.
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Democrats and veterans' advocates are concerned that the White House is taking those calls for privatizing the VA system seriously, but the VA denied last week that there is any push to privatize its health system.
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" American Bridge spokesman Zach Hudson doubled down on the criticism, telling The Hill in a statement Wednesday, "Joni Ernst knows her plan to privatize Social Security is toxic, so she wants to do it in secret.
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The oil giant's initial public offering at the end of 2017 was part of a strategy by the UAE, as well as other Gulf nations, to privatize energy sector assets amid a subdued oil price environment.
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Worse, Republican leaders have been blunt about their motivation: to deliver on their promises to wealthy donors, and down the road, to use the leverage of huge deficits to cut and privatize Medicare and Social Security.
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In an op-ed in the New York Times on Wednesday night, Shulkin blasted Washington as "toxic, chaotic, disrespectful, and subversive," and accused the Trump administration of laying the groundwork to privatize the $180 billion agency.
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As we privatize space, that's really interesting because in this country, privatization of space is what's happening, which is bad, because then you don't have big strategic initiatives the way they have in these other countries.
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With the exception of an aborted attempt to privatize Social Security, George W. Bush protected American social welfare programs and — in at least two notable instances, Medicare Part D and No Child Left Behind — sometimes expanded them.
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Photo: APYou may have heard about the White House's plans to privatize the International Space Station and turn low-Earth orbit into a place of business that NASA can become a customer of, rather than its sponsor.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' Transportation Committee on Wednesday proposed legislation to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system and make other aviation changes, but it faces an uncertain future in Congress.
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"On one hand, (the) Modi government is seeking to privatize Air India and on the other hand they are buying a bankrupt private airline with public money," Randeep Singh Surjewala, a spokesman for the Congress party, said.
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The deal mandate is a major win for Goldman Sachs, which like other Western investment banks has built up its Saudi business to capitalize on the government's plans to privatize assets and diversify the oil-dominated economy.
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As part of that push, the prime minister has surrounded himself with a tightly knit group of young, liberal-minded technocrats with international experience to raise private capital and privatize key sectors such as the telecommunications market.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives panel approved legislation to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system on Thursday as part of a six-year bill to authorize funding for the Federal Aviation Administration.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has invited bids for the state-owned airline as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government pushes ahead with a drive to privatize and end state funding to loss-making firms, Air Zimbabwe's administrator said on Monday.
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Back when George W. Bush was president, Republicans — including Vice President Mike Pence — pushed for a program to privatize Social Security and then cut government spending on Social Security, leaving elderly Americans with stingier guaranteed retirement income.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia plans to transfer ownership of all its airports to its main sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, as part of a drive to privatize them, a senior aviation official said on Monday.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Federal lawmakers demand Wednesday that Puerto Rico quickly privatize its bankrupt power company in a bid to end its turmoil and allow others to provide stable electricity in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
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"I think Mr. Trump should remove sanctions against the four leading Russian banks," said Kostin, pointing out that the country's banks could not privatize any further or borrow from institutions in the West due to the restrictions.
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Founded by Uganda's former dictator Idi Amin in 1976, Uganda Airlines was liquidated in the 1990s by President Yoweri Museveni under a broader program to privatize troubled state firms and open up the economy to private enterprise.
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But the company is still discussing if a privatization through a share offering would need to be submitted to Brazil's audit court, although Castello Branco has said his initial intention is to privatize the fuel distribution arm.
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But its continued presence in public life is far from assured: Trump's team reportedly wants to privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a move that would effectively silence many of the most talented makers of public radio.
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"This is not a real infrastructure plan — it's simply another scam, an attempt by this administration to privatize critical government functions, and create windfalls for their buddies on Wall Street," DeFazio said in the Democratic weekly address.
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Dmitriev declined to comment on how such a conversion might be linked to Moscow's long-running plan to privatize Transneft, which has stalled over low oil prices and the management's opposition to making the company more public.
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" Michael S. Hiller, a lawyer for the opponents, said the developers were "seeking to privatize an interior landmark for use as a luxury residential apartment so they can turn an additional profit of more than $20 million.
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It would privatize Medicare, increase premiums, raise the eligibility age, and add means-testing; it would raise the Social Security retirement age, cut cost of living adjustments by using a different inflation measure, and means-test benefits.
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It also includes a plan to privatize its telecommunications sector and an overhaul to its crippled electricity sector, a crucial demand among potential foreign donors and investors needed to unlock some $11 billion in funds to Lebanon.
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Eskom also employs 103,000 people and has powerful labor unions, some allied with the ANC and others more militant, that have said they will resist attempts to cut the workforce and fight moves to privatize the company.
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Thus far, they have wisely sought to liberalize trade on a number of fronts, such as increasing de minimis customs thresholds, opening up Canada's overly protected dairy markets and pressuring Mexico to privatize its state-owned enterprises.
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Vucic said his government would make a final push to privatize some 73 companies including Belgrade's airport, insurer Dunav and Telekom as requested by a 1.2 billion euro ($1.33 billion) loan deal with the International Monetary Fund.
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But others saw him as too extreme because for years he ran Concerned Veterans for America, a small advocacy group financed by the Koch brothers' network that seeks to discredit and privatize the veterans health care system.
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This morning, President Donald Trump announced plans to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system, a move that would take the responsibility away from the Federal Aviation Administration, the agency that currently manages U.S. air traffic control.
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The country's new economy minister, Tuwaijri, is a former Saudi air force pilot and former chief executive of HSBC's Middle East operations who has led the economy ministry's program to privatize some $200 billion of government assets.
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Many of my Republican colleagues believe that government is the enemy, that we need to eviscerate and privatize virtually all aspects of government – whether it is Social Security, Medicare, the VA, EPA, the Postal Service or public education.
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LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's main opposition candidate for president said on Wednesday he would seek to privatize the state oil company and other government assets if elected next month, while removing a costly petrol subsidy, to revive the economy.
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Despite its makeshift quarters, both doctors and patients told VICE News that the quality of care is better than what is available at government hospitals, which have been ravaged by cuts under a drive to privatize health care.
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Economy Minister Paulo Guedes told Globonews TV this week it would be "a very big leap" for the government to privatize oil major Petroleo Brasileiro SA, which was at the center of an epic corruption scandal in Brazil.
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On Monday, after announcing his intention to privatize air traffic control—a long-standing if not particularly high-profile Republican goal—Trump held an event to sign a memo related to the matter and, naturally, invited an audience.
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SAO PAULO, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Brazil's Mines and Energy Ministry will propose President Michel Temer to privatize power holding company Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras SA, the boldest move yet by a government struggling to close a swelling budget deficit.
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SJ: The other strategy is to privatize, is to sell stakes in state owned companies, and I want to talk about Air India which is widely seen as the company that is going to really set the tone.
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Buhari is hoping his anti-corruption agenda can win him a second term while the main opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar has said he would consider an amnesty for corruption suspects and privatize the state-owned oil company NNPC.
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Lindsey Walters, a deputy White House press secretary, told reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday that the nomination of Dr. Jackson should not be interpreted as a signal that Mr. Trump wants to privatize veterans' health care.
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As the former chief executive of the private weather-forecasting company AccuWeather, which relies on data from NOAA's National Weather Service, he spent years trying to privatize NOAA's public weather information so his company could profit from it.
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The voters who put Trump over the top in Rustbelt states not only adamantly oppose the efforts of conservatives to cut or privatize Social Security and Medicare, they also depend on a host of other discretionary federal programs.
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Perhaps it wouldn't be the best idea to privatize our public schools, open up our public lands to rampant resource extraction, or subject our citizens to the whims of the health care markets by overhauling Medicare and Medicaid.
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The chairman of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said on Tuesday there is not enough support in Congress to move forward with a plan backed by President Donald Trump to privatize the air traffic control system.
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Mr. Abubakar has campaigned on the theme of "Let's Make Nigeria Work Again," while vowing to apply his business acumen to privatize Nigeria's all-important state oil company and lift 50 million people out of poverty by 2025.
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That same narrative will be told and retold when Washington Republicans double down on their desire to deny expanded overtime pay to workers, privatize Medicare, and be forced to take away some of the popular consumer benefits of Obamacare.
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Mobile and IP connectivity in Ethiopia is managed by state-owned Ethio Telecom, though the government — led by newly elected Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Sahle-Work Zewde — has committed to break up the telecom and privatize it.
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Guedes, who wants to privatize an array of state firms, said on Sunday the new government will try to erase Brazil's budget deficit within a year, simplify and reduce taxes, and create 10 million jobs by cutting payroll taxes.
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Opponents of Nazarbayev, who has been in power since 1989, have called for rallies on Saturday in all major cities, extending a series of demonstrations that started last month in response to plans to privatize large tracts of farmland.
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On Thursday, France's constitutional council approved plans for a referendum that could delay or block the government's move to privatize ADP, but Le Maire said he saw the referendum as an "opportunity" for a better presentation of the privatization.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said on Tuesday there is not enough support in Congress to move forward with President Donald Trump's proposal to privatize the air traffic control system.
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Aside from these potential appointments, Trump will also have to contend with the agenda of House Speaker Paul Ryan, whose proposal to privatize Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security is at odds with Trump's campaign promise to defend these entitlements.
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Guimarães said the bank has yet to decide the stake it will sell in Caixa Seguridade in the initial public offering, if 13 percent, with the insurance unit remaining state-controlled, or effectively privatize it by selling 51 percent.
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"We want to reinforce JOGMEC's ability so that it can act swiftly as many oil producing nations plan to privatize their oil companies," said Daisuke Hirota, principal deputy director at the oil and gas division of the industry ministry.
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Guedes, who wants to privatize an array of state firms, said on Sunday the new government will try to erase Brazil's budget deficit within a year, simplify and reduce taxes, and create 10 million jobs by cutting payroll taxes.
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Trump tapped Jared Kushner in March to lead a White House Office of American Innovation to leverage business ideas and potentially privatize some government functions as the White House pushes to shrink government, cut federal employees and eliminate regulations.
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In an interview, Chao sought to reassure critics in the U.S. Congress by saying moves to privatize U.S. air traffic control functions would not affect safety, and that the goal was to improve the flying experience for all passengers.
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Although the vehemence of the opposition was part of the reason Democrats did well in the midterm elections and increased their House majority, the defeat allowed Reagan to get away from trying to cut or privatize the program again.
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Despite the calls for Russia to privatize its oil sector and the subsequent backing from the CEO of a Moscow-based oil giant, Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, had said the government currently has no plans to do so.
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The kingdom's banks are hoping to benefit from increased lending activity as government reforms, such as plans to privatize state-owned assets as well as the lifting from 2018 year of the ban on women driving, get under way.
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But failing that, it would be a modest improvement on the status quo if they applied their backdoor strategy to privatize old-age benefit programs to their ongoing efforts to end the Obamacare coverage guarantee for working-age people.
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He would also be advancing his misguided plan to privatize PREPA — an idea he has promoted with no underlying rationale of how it would lead to a more resilient, sustainable power system (nor would it address PREPA's crippling indebtedness).
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The British government risks losing "trust and the moral high ground" around the world if it goes ahead with plans to privatize the 150-year-old UK Land Registry, experts in the field have said.
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On the campaign trail, he promised to spend $1.5 trillion on the country's infrastructure, but when the details of his plan were released a month before the election, it was merely a proposal to privatize roads, bridges, and waterways.
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Clinton has said she will oppose efforts to cut or privatize Social Security and that she wants to increase benefits for widows and those who took time off from work to care for a child or a sick relative.
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Both petitions were launched on January 21, several days after the news broke that the Trump team was considering a budget plan that would entirely eliminate the two federal agencies, as well as privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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If you privatize meaning so that people get to follow their unrestrained desires, they immediately start tramping on one another, and public pressure grows for restrictive laws, like hate speech regulation, to keep things from getting out of control.
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In the first half of 2018, we are quite bullish; we know Saudi Arabia continues to signal its intent to privatize part of Saudi Aramco, the state-owned oil company, in an initial public offering expected in late 2018.
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The International Monetary Fund and other international organizations have called on the six countries to reduce their public sectors, reform their pension systems and privatize state-controlled companies to tackle a sharp rise in budget deficits and the unemployment.
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The listing for ADNOC Distribution, which manages petrol stations and convenience stores across the United Arab Emirates (UAE), comes as Abu Dhabi and other Gulf states seek to privatize energy assets as revenues are squeezed by lower oil prices.
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Some have also suggested that DeVos money helped convince President Trump to shuffle his shortlist of Supreme Court nominees, putting Brett Kavanaugh's name at the top of his deck to advance the Secretary of Education's agenda to privatize schooling.
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The 95-3 vote sends the measure to the House of Representatives, where lawmakers have been unable to make headway on their own FAA bill because of differences over a provision to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system.
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In addition to releasing a statement championing free and equal access to arts education, for instance, the organization has also pledged support for staff at the National Gallery who were protesting the museum's plans to privatize, announced last year.
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NEW YORK, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro wants to privatize Petrobras Distribuidora SA , the fuel distribution unit of state-owned oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Bolsonaro's running mate told an investor conference in New York on Tuesday.
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Aiming to counter criticism from political rivals and head off possible revolt in his own party on the way to the election next April and May, Fillon denied on Tuesday that he harbored plans to privatize parts of the health system.
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Protesters told Reuters they were struggling to stay afloat because of the high costs of part-privatized education and health systems, rents and utilities, and a privatize pension system has been widely rejected for its low and often delayed payouts.
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The main friction point was that Shulkin resisted the Trump administration's efforts to privatize the VA. And as he left his post, he openly defied the White House with an op-ed in the New York Times and a media blitz.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "A Move That Will Hurt Veterans" (Op-Ed, March 30): The former Veterans Affairs secretary, David J. Shulkin, lays out a number of compelling reasons it's a bad idea to privatize medical services for veterans.
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The lesson to Labour veterans was clear: When you go too far to the left, the result is an eternity in opposition and a Conservative government that's totally free to crush unions, privatize important government functions, and gut the safety net.
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The Trump administration has said it wants to privatize the two mortgage companies, which are government-backed entities that were taken into full conservatorship as the U.S. housing market foundered on bad debt during the 313 to 2009 financial crisis.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday introduced a measure to privatize the national air traffic control system by placing it in the hands of a new private nonprofit corporation run by airlines and other stakeholders.
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Saudi Arabia is seeking a public listing for its flagship oil company Saudi Aramco, while Abu Dhabi National Oil Co has embarked on a plan to privatize its services business and has signed deals with global partners on upstream projects.
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As a result, if Trump were to win, millions of people would expect him to enact a populist agenda, even as his own campaign promises to raise taxes on millions of middle-income workers, privatize roads, and deregulate Wall Street.
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As a congressman, he supported President George W. Bush's efforts to liberalize immigration policy, and privatize Social Security, and, at least until he became Trump's running mate, the Indiana governor supported corporate-backed trade policies including the fledgling Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Acwa Power which says it is the second biggest developer in the Middle East behind Engie expects bigger market share in its home market Saudi Arabia which aims to privatize not just SEC but also the Saline Water Conversion Corp (SWCC).
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Under economic reforms announced this week, the kingdom aims to privatize companies and services in many areas, from health care to housing and municipal government, to boost efficiency and ease pressure on state finances in an era of cheap oil.
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The Democratic platform, which Clinton controlled, states clearly and unequivocally: We will fight every effort to cut, privatize, or weaken Social Security, including attempts to raise the retirement age, diminish benefits by cutting cost-of-living adjustments, or reducing earned benefits.
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"There are a whole number of Republicans who are not going to be for privatizing Medicare, and there ought to be bipartisan support against a secretary [who] was going to privatize Medicare and not fund Planned Parenthood," Schumer told reporters.
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President Ronald Reagan tried to abolish the NEA in when he came into office in 2202 but later backtracked after a task force he formally tasked with finding ways to privatize arts support instead recommended continuing the agency's existing structures.
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Belgrade wants to sell Galenika as part of an effort to privatize, shut or trim unprofitable state firms under a 1.2 billion euro ($1.4 billion) deal with the International Monetary Fund, but the drugmaker's debts have so far put off investors.
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But that only underscores the public school's historic role in the fight for equality—as well as the anti-democratic nature of the campaign to privatize public education, whether it's in the form of vouchers or starving educators of funds.
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In a change to the original plan, the federal government is ready to give over three years of temporary debt relief to Rio in exchange for austerity measures to cut payroll spending, privatize its water utility and raise pension contributions.
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The delivery document released on Tuesday charts the way forward for the period ending in 2020, during which the government plans to privatize the national football league, flour mills at the General Silos and Flour Mills Organization and part of SWCC.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said on Tuesday there is not enough support in Congress to move forward with a plan backed by President Donald Trump to privatize the air traffic control system.
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Next week, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will hold a hearing to revive a risky proposal to privatize our nation's air traffic control system and give effective control of our public airspace to the major airlines and their allies.
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The government is also keen to pump in 8 billion rupees for Air India Asset Holding, a special purpose vehicle set up to privatize the ground handling transport business of the state carrier, stated the document that was tabled in parliament.
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Meanwhile, progressive media outlets and government labor unions published misleading propaganda denying the existence of any problems at the VA and attacking the commission by deploying scare tactics about alleging sinister schemes to "privatize" the VA — something no commissioners had proposed.
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Activists are rising up against the Muslim ban, anti-black and anti-immigrant policies, attacks on women's rights and trans rights, the Dakota Access and Keystone pipelines, efforts to privatize education and deregulate Wall Street, climate change denial, and more.
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While veterans service organizations have consistently stated their defense of the VA healthcare system, various proposals to privatize the system have been floated since the uncovering of the 2014 wait time scandal, in which 40 veterans died awaiting VA care.
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In perhaps his last turn on the national stage, Shulkin blamed his ouster on wrongheaded efforts to privatize the VA to reward a few at the expense of undermining care for millions veterans, and vowed to stay committed to resist privatization.
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In the midst of the safest period in the history of United States air travel, now is not the time to undertake a risky scheme to privatize air traffic control, which could diminish safety, increase costs, reduce service and eliminate accountability.
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India on Wednesday gave approval to privatize debt-laden Air India, the first step of a process that could see the government offload an airline struggling to turn a profit in the face of growing competition from low-cost rivals.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Right-wing Brazilian presidential candidate pledged to slash the size of the state, reduce payroll taxes and privatize many state companies in remarks celebrating his commanding lead over leftist rival Fernando Haddad in Sunday's first-round vote.
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George W. Bush's big push to privatize Social Security in his second term might have crashed and burned—but by moving the political center of gravity, it made some kind of privatization, or at least big Social Security cuts, more palatable.
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Democratic veterans in office could also help defeat Republican attempts to shrink or entirely privatize the VA. But this is not a new strategy for Democrats: In 2006, the party's "Fighting Dems" campaign didn't actually put many new Democrats in office.
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"The time is propitious to take a step I have eyed for some time and 'privatize' our three multi manager flag ship funds — that is to say returning client assets," Bacon wrote in a letter to clients viewed by CNBC.
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Their fear, as well as that of many on the left, is that the government's next step will be to privatize the system, much as Britain has done with largely negative consequences: higher prices, frequent delays and periodic train cancellations.
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An internet blackout in Ethiopia last week cost the economy millions of dollars and crippled businesses, but an analyst said it was unlikely to have a long-term impact on government plans to privatize the telecoms sector.
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After all, there was a time when people like Ronald Reagan insisted that Medicare would destroy American freedom; these days Republicans pose as defenders of the program (even if they're still trying to undermine and privatize it on the sly).
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Katherine ClarkKatherine Marlea ClarkDemocratic lawmakers rip Carson over cuts to housing budget, policies Democratic candidates gear up for a dramatic Super Tuesday Democrats spar with DeVos at hearing, say Trump budget would 'privatize education' MORE and rising Democratic star Rep.
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President Trump endorsed a proposal on Monday to privatize air traffic control, seizing on a decades-old idea as proof that he is advancing the ambitious infrastructure rebuilding plan he promised during his campaign but is still months from delivering.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump endorsed a proposal on Monday to privatize air traffic control, seizing on a decades-old idea as proof that he is advancing the ambitious infrastructure rebuilding plan he promised during his campaign but is still months from delivering.
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He signed a separate order in March to overhaul the federal government and tapped son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner to lead a White House Office of American Innovation to leverage business ideas and potentially privatize some government functions.
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RELATED: Pentagon asks for major budget increase amid threats from Russia, China and North Korea Privatize space station missions The administration proposed turning much of NASA's work at the International Space Station over to private companies within the next decade.
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"Over the years, I have continued to be critical of many decisions taken by the E.U., and I remain critical of its shortcomings, from its lack of democratic accountability to the institutional pressure to deregulate or privatize public services," he said.
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"There is no effort underway to privatize VA, and to suggest otherwise is completely false and a red herring designed to distract and avoid honest debate on the real issues surrounding veterans' health care," the agency said in a statement.
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The Ohio senator is among several liberal lawmakers to rule out action on the administration's plan to privatize Fannie and Freddie, reduce their footprints, foster more competition in the housing finance market and reduce liability held by the U.S. government.
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Earlier on Monday, Reuters reported that Banco do Brasil was planning reforms to better compete with private rivals, after President Jair Bolsonaro quashed an attempt by management to fully privatize the lender, according to four people familiar with the matter.
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Promising to wean the kingdom off oil, the program aimed to open the Saudi market in new ways, including plans to privatize state-owned entities and to sell up to 5% of oil company Saudi Aramco in a public offering.
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The oil giant's initial public offering at the end of last year was part of a strategy by the UAE, as well as other Gulf nations, to privatize energy sector assets at a time when oil prices were relatively subdued.
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Make no mistake: "reform" and "restructure" are code words for cut and privatize — asking beneficiaries to bear the full burden of keeping these programs financially sound for the future when there are modest and manageable alternatives for achieving the same goal.
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SAO PAULO, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Brazil's plan to sell off government assets and privatize state companies is not aimed at covering a budget gap but at offering better services, President Michel Temer said on Friday in a video broadcast via Twitter.
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Mr. Prince's initial push last year to privatize the Afghan war was quashed by two of the most senior members of Mr. Trump's national security team: H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser at the time, and Jim Mattis, the defense secretary.
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"Saudi Arabia has ambitious plans to establish industries and privatize companies led by the Aramco initial public offering, which attracts a lot of attention of banks," said Reinhold Leichtfuss, senior partner and managing director at The Boston Consulting Group's Middle East office.
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Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee were particularly interested in Price's desire to privatize Medicare and replace the Affordable Care Act with something less comprehensive, and they harshly criticized him for drafting legislation that favored companies he'd invested in.
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It got so much media and so much coverage that pretty much everybody who is participating in GEDmatch had heard about it and people had the opportunity to remove their DNA or privatize it if it was something they were not comfortable with.
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While Feldstein did not serve in the George W. Bush administration, he was an adviser to the campaign and was seen as a leading force in shaping the administration's tax cut strategy, as well as its failed push to privatize Social Security.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The economic team of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro wants to privatize state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA before the end of his term in 2022, Brazilian newspaper Valor Economico reported on its website on Wednesday, citing anonymous sources.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India approved plans on Wednesday to privatize debt-laden Air India, the first step of a process that could see the government offload an airline struggling to turn a profit in the face of growing competition from low-cost rivals.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Republicans on Friday insisted that a six-year bill to fund the Federal Aviation Administration and privatize U.S. air traffic control had not been killed despite a decision to move forward instead with a short-term funding measure.
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If either one of you is nominated as the Democratic Party's nominee, you will likely face a Republican opponent in the general election who wants to privatize or even abolish big parts of the V.A. It's a newly popular idea in conservative politics.
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It would allow the state to dissolve city departments, consolidate and privatize municipal services and sell city assets, which were all proposals included in a recent report by the city's emergency manager, Kevin Lavin, about how to turn around the failing city.
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BRASILIA, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The speaker of Brazil's lower house Rodrigo Maia said on Thursday that he is aiming for the body to vote on a bill containing the rules for how to privatize state-controlled power company Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA .
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By contrast, many Republicans would prefer to privatize Medicare — making the program yet another profit center for corporate conglomerates — just as they are besieged by constituents at town meetings about their constantly shifting and retreating promises to repeal, replace or revise ObamaCare.
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NOVI PAZAR, Serbia (Reuters) - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic plans a new push to privatize loss-making state firms if he wins Sunday's election and will do everything needed to secure IMF approval for his economic policies, he told Reuters in an interview.
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Shares of the company, known as Eletrobras, soared following the clear lead Bolsonaro took in Sunday's first-round vote, but then tumbled 13 percent on Wednesday when Bolsonaro said he would privatize transmission and distribution units but not the generation of electricity.
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If such a role reversal is in part a product of the neoliberal tendency to privatize risk, in which increasing amounts of risk get shunted off onto individuals, it is also, in important and perhaps less obvious ways, a legacy of Conceptualist aesthetics.
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ATLANTA, May 21 (Reuters) - It could take four to five years to raise the capital needed to privatize mortgage giant Freddie Mac using a combination of retained earnings and a public offering of stock, Freddie Mac chief executive Donald Layton said on Tuesday.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - The new chief executive of Brazilian state-controlled bank Caixa Econômica Federal, Pedro Guimarães, ruled out on Monday that he would seek to privatize the organization he now leads, saying he will only seek the partial sale of some units.
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Kushner, who is married to Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump, will lead a White House Office of American Innovation to leverage business ideas and potentially privatize some government functions as the White House pushes to shrink government, cut federal employees and eliminate regulations.
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Thanks to years of tax cuts, revenue-strapped cities and states across the country are being forced to slash wages for public employees, privatize emergency services, close libraries and other public institutions, and reconsider pension obligations to teachers, firefighters, and police officers.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A University of Chicago-trained economist named on Monday to head Brazil's Petrobras will not privatize the state-run company, but wants to push ahead with selling non-core assets and to focus on oil exploration and production.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras is studying a mass transfer of employees out of its Transpetro logistics unit, according to a document seen by Reuters, in a sign the company may be gearing up to privatize additional assets.
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SAO PAULO, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Right-wing Brazilian presidential candidate pledged to slash the size of the state, reduce payroll taxes and privatize many state companies in remarks celebrating his commanding lead over leftist rival Fernando Haddad in Sunday's first-round vote.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Republican leaders of a U.S. House of Representatives transportation panel introduced a measure on Wednesday that would privatize the national air traffic control system, placing it under a private nonprofit group run by a range of stakeholders including airlines.
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The people Mr. Trump represents want to suppress and disenfranchise you-know-who; the big-money interests that support Ryan-style conservatism want to privatize and generally dismantle the social safety net, and they're willing to do whatever it takes to get there.
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And it's not just about wages: These laws kneecap working-class power, and in doing so, stack the odds in favor of those wealthy few who want to privatize our schools, cut taxes for the rich and further mangle our health care.
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In 2004, when there were protests against plans to privatize EDF, unions cut power supplies to dozens of targeted locations, including parts of some cities, Paris train stations, the headquarters of political parties and the employers organization and the residences of conservative politicians.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Puerto Rican governor's plan to privatize PREPA, the island's bankrupt power utility, could herald hard times for holders of its $9 billion in bonds, who are concerned the deal could strip their ability to collect on their investments.
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"There is no effort underway to privatize VA, and to suggest otherwise is completely false and a red herring designed to distract and avoid honest debate on the real issues surrounding veterans' health care," the agency said in a statement last month. Sen.
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TV's Saagar Enjeti rips Sanders for 'inability to actually fight with bad actors' in party Biden fires back at Sanders on Social Security Warren now also knocking Biden on Social Security MORE, the former vice presidential candidate, about wanting to privatize Social Security.
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While Republicans have at times tried to use this imbalance as a pretext to privatize the program, mainstream Democrats have been more likely to see it as a problem that needs to be fixed with a mix of higher taxes and lower spending.
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TV's Saagar Enjeti rips Sanders for 'inability to actually fight with bad actors' in party Biden fires back at Sanders on Social Security Warren now also knocking Biden on Social Security MORE, the former vice presidential candidate, about wanting to privatize Social Security.
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Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE wants to dismantle them entirely, while Mnunchin says he hopes to "privatize" the two government-sponsored enterprises.
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The minority members on the House Transportation and Infrastructure and the Appropriations committees asked the DOT's inspector general on Wednesday to investigate whether agency officials violated federal laws in urging support for a bill that would privatize the country's air navigation system.
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BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian markets rose on Monday after far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro ran up a huge lead in the first round of voting, boosting investors' hopes that he will tackle a growing fiscal deficit and privatize key companies.
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Longtime Boyle Heights residents addressed the crowd, recounting previous struggles to fight the demolition of the Pico-Aliso housing project (the catalyst for the formation of Union de Vecinos), attempts to privatize public housing, as well as crime and violence in their community.
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There are many of good examples of this at work in our political system: the revolt against "Hillarycare" in the 1990s, the panic over George Bush's plans to privatize Social Security in the early 2000s, and, more recently, the public souring on Obamacare.
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She compared the fight ahead against Republicans to the one she led in 2005 and 2006 when then-President George W. Bush traveled around the country championing a proposal to privatize Social Security, a plan that didn't gain traction with the public or in Congress.
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The far-right leader and his economic advisors, dubbed the "Chicago boys" for their ties with Nobel laureate Milton Friedman's alma mater, have promised to cut the country's large budget deficit, privatize a raft of state-owned companies and open the economy to more competition.
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SAO PAULO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Brazilian far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, who narrowly missed a first-round presidential win yesterday, said on Monday on Twitter that he would reduce the number of ministries, privatize state companies and combat fraud in social programs if elected.
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PARIS, May 10 (Reuters) - French Fiance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday that he still "fundamentally" believed in plans to privatize the country's main airports group ADP , as he sought to play down a possible referendum that could block or delay the process.
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Sport is one of the pillars of the government's Vision 2030 goal to raise living standards and diversify the economy beyond oil exports, while the privatization of soccer clubs has been earmarked as an early candidate in a drive to privatize state-linked assets.
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There, the local schools are foundational community institutions, and the conservative push to privatize public services has transferred bus drivers, janitors, cafeteria workers, and even some coaches on to the payroll of private contractors that pay less than the state does while providing fewer benefits.
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Washington (CNN)The head of the nation's airport security said Thursday that airports can decide whether they want to privatize their security staff -- amid exasperatingly long waits and continued security gaps -- but the results are likely to be the same as using government workers.
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SAO PAULO, Aug 21 (Reuters) - The economic team of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro wants to privatize state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA before the end of his term in 2022, Brazilian newspaper Valor Economico reported on its website on Wednesday, citing anonymous sources.
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A major reason for the effort to privatize espionage was the belief by some of those involved that the "deep state," a shadowy network in the government, was sabotaging Trump's agenda, and that to work effectively Trump, had to use channels outside the CIA.
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The command of both houses of Congress is key for Bolsonaro and his team to advance with plans to change not only the pension system, but other legislations including tax for corporations and a plan to privatize a large number of state-owned companies.
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"It has become less realistic to privatize public shares in 2016 as we originally aimed for — I am referring to the fact that we are going to elections later this year," the minister of finance and economic affairs said at a conference in London.
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Roskam joins lobbying firm Anti-corruption group hits Congress for ignoring K Street, Capitol Hill 'revolving door' Republicans spend more than million at Trump properties MORE (R-Pa.), who earlier this year dropped his long-held push to privatize the air traffic control system.
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"In reality, President Trump and Congressional Republicans are pushing a trillion-dollar corporate giveaway that would create tax incentives for Wall Street to privatize our roads, bridges, sanitation systems, and utilities, while raising tolls, fees, and bills—all through taxpayer subsidies," the CPC outline says.
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