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• n  changing something from state to private ownership or control

• Chicago is no stranger to privatization: the city has successfully liquidated assets from local parking garages to the Skyway Bridge.
• The result has already been a quasi-privatization of some of the nation's top research institutions and the economic stratification of their student bodies.
• Republicans: Less federal government and more privatization.

• denationalization
• denationalisation
• privatisation

• nationalization

News & Articles

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• Could liquor privatization benefit or hurt local breweries?
  While opposition still exists on the liquor privatization bill, at least one brewery in Lancaster County has found a benefit. But could that same benefit hurt our local breweries in the long run?
  June 13, 2013 - WGAL 8 Susquehanna Valley
• RBS Hester says would have liked to stay for privatization
  LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland Chief Executive Stephen Hester said he would have liked to have stayed at the bank beyond this year to oversee its privatization, but said it made sense to look for a successor before that process. RBS said on Wednesday Hester will leave later this year. "Of course I'd like to have stayed as I feel I've been in the trenches with all of my people helping ...
  June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Liquor privatization; potential tax hikes: Opinion roundup
  The privatization of liquor sales in Washington has more than quadrupled the number of private retailers, probably a good thing. And Oregon lawmakers must compromise -- now -- on PERS cuts and tax hikes.
  June 11, 2013 - The Oregonian

Quotes

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• Christopher Christie in NJ TODAY
  In March, I asked the Privatization Task Force to develop a strategy that would reduce the size, scope and cost of state government,said Christie. "What they have provided is a path for change that will benefit New Jersey's taxpayers...
• Mike Huckabee in Guardian Unlimited
  The president had the right idea, but he used the wrong word. When he used the word 'privatization,' it scared the daylights out of a lot of people,said Mike Huckabee, a Republican.
• John Edwards in Forbes
  I have heard Sen. Clinton say in the debates that she is against changing benefits, against raising the retirement age, against privatization, so what is she going to do? I haven't heard what she's for,Edwards said. "I also have heard that...