Chinese companies, private as well as publicly owned, are investing in farming, manufacturing and retailing.
They favour offering the right to treatment in private as well as public hospitals.
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Some people seem to think that they are as private as letters, phone calls, or journal entries.
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The employers, private as well as public, kept the responsibility and the fees to manage the funds.
Zuckerberg is still fairly private as a person, but he has begun to master the media since then.
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Besides, the curse of rising health-care costs afflicts private as well as public care, Mr Galbraith points out.
She visited us several times on vacation, and she was as impressive in private as she was in public.
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Slash is suing his former real estate agent, claiming the house was neither as big nor as private as the agent claimed.
And under the match-funding rules, lottery money has attracted private as well as local public funds to projects that might otherwise never have happened.
She was as impressive in private as she was in public.
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Though not so private as his architectural counterpart, the Dutch-born "plantsman" (as he humbly calls himself) is also something of an ascetic, living and working far from the madding crowd in a bucolic retreat.
This case is made more complicated because there were oral agreements between the SWAT officer and his lieutenant that the messages would remain private as long as he paid any overage fees for messages exceeding those allowed by his work plan.
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Instead he is raking in as many private deals as he can.
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Central America has fallen into a Hobbesian trap: the better-off make private arrangements there are five times as many private security guards as policemen or soldiers in Guatemala, and four times as many in Honduras and therefore block efforts to levy the tax revenues necessary to strengthen the state.
To be sure, Portman was anything but comfortable discussing something as private and personal as his son's sexuality, even noting how foreign it felt for someone with his Midwestern upbringing and sensibilities to talk publicly about such issues.
"Out-of-control dogs are just as much a threat on private property as in public places, " said animal welfare minister Lord de Mauley.
And by the way, if the government can be as efficient as the private sector and offer premiums that are as low as the private sector, people will be happy to get traditional Medicare.
To take an example from one of our recent editorials, Medicare today refuses to reimburse for the new, less invasive preventive treatment known as a virtual colonoscopy, but such private insurers as Cigna and United Healthcare do.
Just as private airlines remain at least as zealous about safety as state-owned ones, there is no reason to expect private railways to skimp more than the always-cash-strapped public ones.
Further, reserve managers are turning to gold for many of the same reasons as private investors, such as concerns about inflation and U.S. dollar weakness, Dempster said.
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Specifically, I propose that we commit 60 percent of the budget surplus for the next 15 years to Social Security, investing a small portion in the private sector just as any private or state government pension would do.
But with the above reform, the poor would enjoy the same health care as the middle class because they would have the same private insurance as the middle class, paying market rates for care.
If you are in the compliance or ethics department at your company, perhaps you should not worry as much about what an employee is doing in their private life as much as what they are talking about around the water cooler.
As TDN's PR guy, I sometimes traveled on their private jet as they went from city and arena to city and arena and gave concerts to audiences of phenomenal and unprecedented size.
But, where public provision of social services is the norm, as in most of continental Europe, governments have been more ambivalent, seeing private provision as a sign of state failure.
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Sometimes commentators talk about the public and private sector as if they are completely different worlds but I've been to a private company that works largely for the public sector - in particular in education and health.
Many parents view private preschool as a necessary step in the even more stressful process of securing a place in a private grade school, the process for which has been chronicled recently in the documentary "Getting In" on the TLC cable channel.
Two parties who agree to be bound by the law of a foreign jurisdiction when those foreign laws do not infringe upon any fundamental liberty or important public policy of the state of Oklahoma is as innocuous and conducive to the "freedom to contract" and the liberty inherent in private property as it sounds.
Either a slow slide into oblivion as new leadership cuts costs, closes stores and tests new merchandising initiatives or a blip into private ownership as old leaders attempt to resurrect the concept.
Either from increased borrowing, or increased taxes, which both take an equal amount of resources and spending out of the private economy as they finance increased government spending, or from printing more dollars, which just creates inflation (devaluing private spending by an equal amount).
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