31.   Her husband lost his job five years ago when the state-owned phone company was privatized.

32.   In recent years, federal subsidies have begun to dry up and the state has privatized produce companies.

33.   Mahuad is also jostling with Congress, where his plans to privatize state companies and raise taxes are making little headway.

34.   Meshyn said the investigation was largely triggered by his resistance to attempts to privatize the company.

35.   Several Hondutel executives this week warned that the coup is being plotted to prevent President Carlos Roberto Reina from privatizing the company.

36.   Shafeeq had said privatizing the company was not part of the reorganization plan.

37.   Succeeding governments have been slow to implement reforms and close or privatize inefficient companies that once survived on state subsidies and guarantees.

38.   Some of this is to be paid by the Jordanian government before the company is privatized.

39.   The economic program calls for slashing state spending, reforming the ailing banking sector and privatizing companies.

40.   The confederation contends the state of siege was part of a government attempt to destroy coca plants without paying compensation to farmers and to privatize state companies by force.