At first, the bureaucrats flatly rejected Mr Koizumi's push to privatise these road-building enterprises.
So they go and privatise the only successful publicly owned franchise, the East Coast line.
Barnet Council's One Barnet Programme includes plans to privatise up to 70% of services, residents warn.
But former postal minister Ian McCartney denied there were plans to privatise the Royal Mail.
Saturday's demonstration also called for an end to plans to partly privatise London Underground.
Confusing laws and state meddling have thwarted efforts to privatise industry and attract foreign investment.
She said she believed that the coalition government was planning "to privatise flood defence infrastructure".
Democrats moaned that it was stacked with people keen to privatise the pensions system.
They rejected a full deal with telecoms firm BT to part privatise services, including benefit payments.
The government should simply get out: privatise, and let the market do the rest.
The best option would be to privatise them, with many hospitals becoming not-for-profit charities.
One of Egypt's problems is that it is running out of easy ways to privatise.
But such rules tend to put off foreign investors and the government is being slow to privatise anyway.
Three days after the crash, Prime Minister Yu Shyi-kun pledged to privatise the airline within two years.
But if the Tories never planned to privatise the health service, why do voters so distrust them?
As it is, the government seems hesitant even to privatise the earnings-related element of the state pension.
If it fails, there will be pressure to break up the Federal Employment Agency, or privatise it.
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During the campaign, Mr Fox backed away from earlier plans to privatise Pemex, the state oil company.
Henceforth it will be easier for a future government to privatise Air France if it should wish.
Union officials say plans to take over, break up or privatise a Herefordshire NHS trust are "extremely worrying".
Meanwhile, the SNP highlighted the rebellion by Labour backbenchers over plans to privatise National Air Traffic Services (Nats).
The British government's recent proposal to partly privatise the Tote the state-owned competitor to the bookmakers could make things worse.
So, though laws have recently been passed to let the government cut spending and privatise, still nothing happens.
So even granted the will-power to stabilise the economy, privatise state property and liberalise markets, would it work?
The vote was held over the decision to push ahead with plans to part-privatise some key council services.
Besides making government more costly and less effective, this also makes parliament reluctant to privatise dysfunctional state-owned firms.
And the Tories' last-minute plan to privatise London Underground, far from winning over supporters, may have lost some.
But what happens if the two big neighbours privatise their way into real efficiency, and Uruguay does not?
The first is its decision to stick with the plan to privatise the company in two separate pieces.
He could not endorse the Tories' new proposals to privatise pensions without sparking a revolt in Labour's ranks.
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