1.   At the same time, the Senate also rejected two other amendments that would have gradually privatized the agency and shifted all NEA funding to the states.

2.   A source close to the negotiations about the takeover, said HUD will try to expand and speed up plans already in the works to privatize the agency.

3.   Federal agencies were privatized, but few provisions were made for tens of thousands thrown out of work.

4.   He did not say which labor laws would be changed, nor did he indicate which government agencies might be privatized next.

5.   It was a stinging defeat for Goldsmith, who won national attention for efforts to privatize city agencies and held a steady lead in statewide polls through the summer.

6.   The Bush administration was not looking to privatize the agency but merely to salvage it.

7.   With those powers, he says he wants to privatize state agencies, lower tariffs and simplify the labor code.