21.   All three candidates have promised to combat corruption, privatize state companies, end a severe electricity shortage and increase social spending.

22.   Alexander Braverman, the first deputy minister for state property, was unfazed by the delay, saying the government can continue to privatize state companies by decree.

23.   After the Soviet collapse, the company was partly privatized, but the government retained a controlling interest.

24.   And Okazaki warned it might actually cost the government more because Tokyo would have to pay off corporate debts before any company could be privatized.

25.   Britain, which has gone farther in privatizing its companies, is more useful as a base of operations, they say.

26.   But she also signaled the U.S. hope that Romania speed its effort to privatize state companies and show toleration toward ethnic minorities.

27.   Egypt has launched an ambitious economic reform program to boost foreign investment and privatize public sector companies.

28.   Farid Gazizulin, acting minister of state property, said the government is putting the finishing touches on plans to privatize the company, the Interfax news agency reported.

29.   Good progress in privatizing state companies, tightening banking regulations, company laws.

30.   He said ACP nations will need to privatize companies to make them competitive in trading circles, and for that, they need more funding.