1.   The standard of service has gone right down since the company was privatized.

2.   But he also promised not to privatize the company, a move that could have been politically unpopular.

3.   Feed companies were privatized, and the price of Russian chicken feed, which is often of poor quality, rose.

4.   Freeing trade, privatizing government companies, and limiting government spending were once seen as main ingredients.

5.   Governments everywhere have lately been finding state-owned companies harder to privatize than they had hoped.

6.   He tiptoed toward the center by privatizing some companies and by flirting with law-and-order messages.

7.   Many of those managers seized their new chance, borrowing recklessly and then privatizing the companies they ran, leaving their debts for the government to pay.

8.   Moreover, the region will likely see a slew of consolidations as national companies are privatized to face competition.

9.   Poland privatized small companies quickly, but took time to place large factories in private hands.

10.   Potentially far more important than the pay cuts were the vows to shake up the Civil Service and to begin privatizing state companies.