"Many people experience renting privately at some point in their lives, but private renting as a sector isn't well understood, " said Ms Rugg.

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Mr. Crown joined Henry Crown and Company, a privately owned investment company which invests in public and private securities, real estate and operating companies, in 1985 as Vice President and became President in 2003.

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There are more than 100 private radio stations and over 20 privately-owned newspapers in Ghana.

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That transcontinental railroad, completed in 1893, was the only one built entirely with private money on privately purchased land, by a self-made railroad tycoon, James J.

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Most privately held companies suffer the agonies of such market swings in private--but Freescale will have to do it in public.

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That means the millions of privately held companies have played a major role in business investment and manufacturing by the private sector as a whole since the recession.

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Whereas Biden meets privately with nuns and emphasizes a private faithfulness, Ryan puts his Catholicism right out in the open -- and he attracts some evangelical support for doing it.

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But Genesis is privately-held, having been acquired by private investment firms Formation Capital and JER Partners in 2007.

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Indeed, Hamilton earlier this week noted during a presentation in New York that sales growth rates at privately held companies, which account for 67.1 percent of all private-sector employment, have slowed significantly in recent months.

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