These big firms account for more than two-thirds of state output.

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Kling's newsroom was already one of the biggest in the state, and Kling started re-editing its output for use on commercial stations.

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Although most of the economy is now private, state-owned firms still account for 60% of industrial output.

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In Venezuela the authorities first raised the royalties on Total's output, and then demanded that the state-owned oil company be granted a majority stake in several fields operated by Total.

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Throw in 3 cents in federal and state subsidies and the electricity is competitive with the output from a new coal-fired plant.

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Sugar output during the 2013-14 marketing year will likely remain flat or fall only marginally from this year's level, thanks to improved output in Uttar Pradesh, the country's second-largest producing state, he said.

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But they were written by Britain's Central Policy Review staff about the sorry state of the U.K. auto industry in 1975, when output had fallen by one-quarter in a decade.

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The state oil company lacks the means, and multinationals the will, to invest much in expanding natural-gas output.

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Cement output might not increase, or building of low-cost homes accelerate, simply because the state has majority ownership.

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He has sent a bill to Congress that would allow the sale of majority stakes in state companies, and wants private investors to build a long-needed new oil pipeline, which might allow oil output to double.

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