11.   It plans to privatize desalination operations to cut expenses.

12.   Leaders of four unions said Thursday they were protesting possible job cuts under a plan to privatize some operations at Leonardo da Vinci airport.

13.   The government at the time was in the process of privatizing the operations.

14.   The state-owned KAC is gradually privatizing its operations by selling its profitable subsidiaries, part of a government plan to energize the private sector.