The above in mind, if the FDIC were abolished, it's likely that a private version of it would quickly materialize.
They may, optionally, also sell a private version of this offering that uses the same architecture but is not multi-tenant.
But assuming what is unlikely--that no private version of the FDIC would materialize in the absence of the federal version--would that be so bad?
On Wednesday Marlinspike, a hacker and cybersecurity researcher, introduced a new, even-more-private version of the GoogleSharing privacy tool he launched eight months ago.
But what critics often fail to ask is why savings accounts are so sacred, and why the government-chartered FDIC, as opposed to a private version, has to insure those accounts.
Not one has been a blockbuster, although Davison says Home Depot (nyse: HD - news - people ) is doing a private-label version of the Magna Jar.
It's also the only version a private collector can get their hands on at public auction.
An early version of the cybersecurity-cooperation plan was released in January, and private industry has been working with officials on a second version of the plan, which is expected to be released in spring 2001.
For good measure he attacked George Osborne, the UK chancellor, for saying (in Mr Schulz's version of what was presumably a private conversation at the Davos economic forum) that he cared less about what the EU committed itself to spend than he did about what the UK actually had to cough up.
For good measure he attacked George Osborne, the UK chancellor, for saying (in Mr Shulz's version of what was presumably a private conversation at the Davos economic forum) that he cared less about what the EU committed itself to spend than he did about what the UK actually had to cough up.
The Lib Dem version is an Infrastructure Bank to direct private finance into new rail services and green energy.
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The official PMI is generally seen as reflective of state-owned companies, while the HSBC version is a better proxy for the private sector.
Based in Atlanta, Gupta also contributes health stories to CNN.com, co-hosts "Accent Health" for Turner Private Networks, provides medical segments for the syndicated version of "ER" on TNT and writes a column for Time magazine.
There are also a number of companies developing private sharing apps, including Path, which launched a new version last week.
The jab comes as Apple announced it will build a slew of business-friendly features for the iPhone and iPod Touch, including support for push e-mail, push calendaring, push contacts, virtual private networks and support for certificates and identities into the next version of its iPhone operating system.
The jab comes as Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) announced it will build a slew of business-friendly features for the iPhone and iPod Touch, including support for push e-mail, push calendaring, push contacts, virtual private networks and support for certificates and identities into the next version of its iPhone operating system.
Mr. Baucus doesn't want seniors to be educated about these facts, and obviously he's willing to use his enormous power to punish any private company that doesn't affirm his, well, creative version of reality.
It only came to light in September, when Mr. Shukrun went public with his version of the story, and tapes and transcripts of the private arbitration hearings were leaked to the press.
The AK-47, for example, is widely available to private citizens around the U.S. as a semi-automatic version (firing one shot each time the trigger is pulled), but the military grade fully automatic (continuous fire while the trigger is depressed) model is illegal almost everywhere.
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Private insurance plans that cover conventional sinus surgery are likely to cover the balloon version, too.
But Deep Space Industries Chairman Rick Tumlinson, a longtime booster of private space efforts, said the company sees itself as the 21st-century version of the "settlers and shopkeepers" who followed the Lewis and Clark expedition into the American West.
Last year, the company launched a version of its service hosted in China and took an investment from Chinese private-equity firm CBC Capital.
Others, such as James Tooley, a British academic who advises a chain of low-cost for-profit schools in India, say private-sector education in poor countries routinely outperforms the free, taxpayer-subsidised version.
He has since offered a revised version that would allow younger Americans to receive standard Medicare coverage or use tax subsidies to buy private insurance.
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As The Economist went to press, it looked likely that a diluted version of the Volcker rule would pass, allowing banks to keep running hedge-fund and private-equity units for clients who want to invest in them, and perhaps to keep putting a small share of their own capital in them as well.
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