31. Private operators have made mobile telephones the fastest-growing communications business in India. 32. Private operators of rail and port facilities have also cut costs, by over half in the case of the latter. 33. Private operators are now looking to team with public companies, who generally have an advantage through the ability to raise low cost capital by selling stock and debt. 34. Private operators cannot readily protect their herds and flocks from the carelessness of others. 35. REIT executives argue that they will be in a better financial condition to keep up their properties than are debt-laden private operators. 36. State transportation officials acknowledged that the proposal does not include a method to ensure that a private operator will not simply walk away if the investment proves unprofitable. 37. That authority would in turn hire a private operator to run them. 38. That may include eventual city control over the airports, he said, or possibly turning them over to private operators. 39. Telecoms equipment makers were hoping to do well out of orders from private operators. 40. The Chelsea Piers project would include a health club managed by Western Athletic Club, the private operators of the San Francisco Bay Club. |