Then, after privatization, the government goes back to a laissez faire policy, starting the cycle over again.

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But after its privatization last year, the company, now 40% owned by Saudi Arabia's Aramco and 20% by the public, left such baggage behind.

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Large parts of the privatization program will, after all, amount to huge transfers of negative wealth.

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Goodwin was made a partner at 29 after successfully getting the troubled Rosythe Royal Dockyards ready for privatization during the Thatcher era, no small achievement for a young man.

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That was only after National Express Group, a publicly traded British firm specializing in airport privatization, waded through the three-year bid process and an achingly slow review by the state.

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Tension heightened this March after an unsuccessful attempt to murder Anatoly Chubais, head of power company Unified Energy System, architect of Russian privatization and the "father of all Russian oligarchs, " as Pravda put it.

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Born in Kazakhstan, where his Ingush family had been deported after World War II, Gutseriev became the president of state oil company Slavneft, but was dismissed in 2002 before privatization.

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