But private-sector involvement has also been harmed by the patchy record of private providers to date.

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That makes it the biggest private equity IPO to date and among the biggest financial services IPOs.

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The private lawsuit has been spectacularly unsuccessful to date and Apple has quickly retreated from practices concerning Adobe and content publishers before any government investigation could pick up much steam.

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Companies may still recover some reputational equity by making such common cause with their customers and partners, but that will not exempt them from the harshest penalties imposed to date for failing to protect private data.

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Councils, such as Northumberland, which has three schools in the first wave of the programme, have been warned by the EFA that the lack of private finance has resulted in the later start date - still to be set.

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Increased coordination would be required among the private- and public-sector supervisors of exchanges and other financial markets to keep up to date with evolving practices and products and to try to identify those which may pose risks outside the purview of each individual regulator.

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Hedge funds date to 1949, when Alfred Winslow Jones, a writer at Fortune, opened a private investment firm using sixty thousand dollars he had raised from friends and forty thousand he had saved.

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The deadline galvanised the government and private bus owners into action, so the court, seeing some display of sincerity, set a more realistic date of September 30th.

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Much of the discussion to date has been somewhat narrow, focusing on cost-savings to the enterprise and the public versus private cloud debate.

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