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But this was possible only because the Swedish government already owned all the assets, thereby circumventing the hopelessly difficult issue of pricing them.
They remained government owned and operated.
Indeed, the only Ukrainian in attendance was a representative of the energy giant DTEK, owned by Rinat Akhmetov, the country’s richest oligarch.
The West has never owned Turkey, so debating who “lost” it is pointless.
A recent report by the US Department of Defense employs the strongest language yet to implicate China’s government and military in cyber espionage, including on computer systems owned by the US government.
And in some cases, governments have interrupted programming on privately owned television stations to issue political statements.
If Chinese companies, both state- and privately owned, are to benefit from the leadership’s new vision, they must learn from past failures, and adapt their priorities for the long term.
Will it raise the money by hurriedly selling CITGO, now wholly owned by Venezuela’s state oil company, PDVSA?
Although private enterprises are the fastest growing part of the Chinese economy, enterprises that are partially or fully owned by the state continue to be major employers.
And, eventually, some of them will be able to raise capital and start firms of their own – export companies owned and operated by Africans.
At the time, most of the owners were from Taiwan or Hong Kong; today, more than 70% of the island's industrial companies are locally owned.
Transportation is another field where employee ownership is common: around the world, trucking companies, bus companies, and taxi companies are often organized as cooperatives owned by their drivers.
Indeed, the 1,200-page technical manual that must be followed to produce a plan belies the fundamental idea that these programs are owned and governed by those who adopt them.
In 2014, five companies owned one-third of the 1,400 local television stations in the US.
The 168 stations owned or operated today by Sinclair Broadcasting, the largest of the five, are a case in point;Sinclair broadcasts in 81 local markets, reaching nearly 40% of the US population.
To strike an effective balance, the action plan proposes two publicly owned investment funds – one raising money from institutional investors, and the other from individuals.
After all, if they are not owned by China, they are owned by someone.
The Times reported that the Bangwa Queen has been owned by many famous collectors “since she left her Cameroonian royal shrine in the late nineteenth century.”
The EU’s newcomers have adopted growth models that rely to varying degrees on foreign capital to finance domestic investment, and on banking systems that are largely owned by west European banks.
There might be some hope for the future if Bush owned up to his mistakes and changed course.
Howard’s government also implemented a rigorous “buyback” policy, to enable the government to purchase guns already owned by the public.
Privately owned newspapers, independent radio and television networks, trade unions, churches, professional societies, and other groups within civil society provide a bulwark against despotism.
But, even back then, what mattered was the amount of gold you owned – not where it was actually stored.
The fact that more than half of the publicly held US government debt is now owned by foreign investors might make the interest rate even more sensitive to the debt’s relative size.
In Poland, supposedly a Catholic country, there is a radio program and daily newspaper owned by "Radio Maria," both public voices of a charismatic, xenophobic, and fundamentalist priest who loathes our liberal society.
The rest of the Chinese economy is dynamic, decentralized, and privately owned.
All this will put further strain on the financial sector, which to a large degree in Central and Eastern Europe is owned by major Western banking groups.
Fully 90.6% of US families in the highest decile of the income distribution owned stocks – double the 45% ownership share of the other 90%.
At the same time, the top 10% also owned nonfinancial assets (including primary residences) with a median value of $756,400 – nearly six times the value held by the other 90%.
Major differences also divide firms that remain publicly owned from those privatized, as well as from those always private.
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