Going private will allow them to re-brand and rebuild without the market's influence and ever-watchful eye.
Being private will enable the company to take its time making the necessary changes to compete, or so the theory goes.
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Going private will buy the company time to fix itself without worrying about the impact on quarterly results and fluctuating share prices.
But given that much of the cyber initiative remains classified--including key details like the anatomy of the government's new networking monitoring technology and the degree to which it will be deployed on private sector networks--building trust with the private sector will be difficult, McConnell argues.
Dr. KATHY HUDSON (Director, Genetics and Public Policy Center, Johns Hopkins University): Over and over and over again, people express their worry about how that information will be used, will it be kept private and will insurers or employers be able to get that information and use it against them.
The private sector will have a key role to play for meaningful, economically productive jobs will only come from the private sector.
But the means of ensuring that they are met will be thrown open: private hospitals will treat patients who have been waiting too long for treatment, and tutors will give remedial classes to failing schoolchildren.
The new assumption is that unless Greece can bring down its overall debt level its economy will never recover, since the government will be unable to invest and private lenders will never believe that their money is safe.
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The Nasdaq Private Market will provide a platform for buying and selling private company shares.
Informal lenders will henceforth need to be registered, more private capital will be encouraged and the issuance of high-yield bonds approved.
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Other innovations will be that each private finance project will have to publish its financial performance every year and the Treasury will publish a running total of taxpayers' cumulative private finance liabilities - to allay concerns that these liabilities are becoming unaffordable.
But the bravado is based partly on the hope that the oil price will rise next year, and the conviction that Venezuela's private banks will be happy to finance this year's deficit, albeit at a price.
Now, it is possible that the prospect of fast economic growth will cause the financial markets to view us as creditworthy again, and that private investors will be willing to lend us money at reasonable interest rates in order to finance our economic recovery program.
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But equally, he says that there will not be profits in Newtrack, so it is hard to see why the private sector will take risks either.
Indeed, one would have to possess one heck of a crystal ball to know when the nation will finally find itself with no choice but to adopt a single-payer system because the private insurers will no longer find it worth their while to remain in the business.
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We have a situation where despite substantial job growth in the private sector, we still have things we need to do like the production tax credit, the refinance initiatives the President has taken that will help the private sector, will help the economy grow.
For example, today the Rockefeller Foundation announced it will provide seed money for a new RE.invest initiative, a public-private partnership that will help selected cities to leverage private financing for sustainable storm water and sewer systems.
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The U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corps, OPIC, headed by Rob Mosbacher, will work with the financial community to create several new private equity funds that will mobilize up to a billion dollars of additional private investment in Africa.
For example, last week the Rockefeller Foundation announced it will provide seed money for a new RE.invest initiative, a public-private partnership that will help up to eight cities leverage private financing for sustainable storm water and sewer systems.
Not-for-profit public interest companies from the private sector will be able to bid to be involved.
Private banks will keep gaining market share from state-owned banks in the next decade, he predicts.
Beyond improving human lives and the environment, public-private partnerships will create meaningful jobs for local populations.
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LEAs and the private companies will try to make further progress on simplifying service contracts.
Unitranche loans made to companies backed by private equity will range between 6-10% over LIBOR.
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In other words, if businesses and households want clean energy, private firms will supply it.
Private utilities will foot most of the bill, but governments are chipping in too.
At least 20, 000 public-sector jobs could vanish, which the private sector will struggle to replace.
The private sector will be needed to provide the capital to support more credit.
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The final report developed by the private sectors will identify roundtable agenda topics for discussion.
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