1.   The government has now abandoned its plans to privatize parts of the health service.

2.   Bids to privatize parts of the canal that have already been turned over to Panama have not been truly open and competitive, according to the U.S. trade representative.

3.   Bush spoke of privatizing part of Social Security, which may well have cost him support in Florida.

4.   But labor officials say their chief legislative priority is to strengthen Social Security and to kill the Republican proposal for privatizing part of it with individual accounts.

5.   But Robert Ball, a former Social Security administrator who has long battled proposals to privatize any part of Social Security, said Moynihan has left many questions unanswered.

6.   Executives will not talk on the record about its efforts, which are intended to privatize part of Social Security while keeping a safety net in place.

7.   He also wants to privatize part of Social Security and introduce more free-market competition into Medicare, steps that are likely to cost large amounts of money.

8.   He favors privatizing part of the Social Security system, establishing term limits for members of Congress and providing school vouchers.

9.   The most popular argument against privatizing any part of the Social Security pension system is that people would become vulnerable to unacceptable market risk.

10.   Those who want to privatize a part of Social Security would tap the surplus to help pay the costs.