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  • They expanded a system of workhouses and poor relief for the destitute, built up municipal water and sewage systems, municipalized police forces, and oversaw public investment in landmarks that are still with us, such as the Thames Embankment and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

    Naomi Wolf: David Cameron's Great Expectations Naomi Wolf 2011

  • They expanded a system of workhouses and poor relief for the destitute, built up municipal water and sewage systems, municipalized police forces, and oversaw public investment in landmarks that are still with us, such as the Thames Embankment and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

    Naomi Wolf: David Cameron's Great Expectations Naomi Wolf 2011

  • They expanded a system of workhouses and poor relief for the destitute, built up municipal water and sewage systems, municipalized police forces, and oversaw public investment in landmarks that are still with us, such as the Thames Embankment and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

    Naomi Wolf: David Cameron's Great Expectations Naomi Wolf 2011

  • We should have municipalized the first time around, when it might have been financially attractive.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • Dear Greg: Thanks for the AT&T/Comcast clarification, and also for the shout-out for the municipalized cable systems in San Bruno and Tacoma.

    Zane Blaney and the Death of Access SF sfmike 2009

  • One citizen said that utilities are better off being municipalized than being investor owned -- Lou.

    CNN Transcript - Breaking News: California PUC Approves Rate Hike - January 4, 2001 2001

  • All agricultural capital would be nationalized or municipalized as fast as it became sufficiently highly organized to make this practicable.

    Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling

  • The most radical of all, that of the single taxers, who plan not only that the state shall be the sole landlord, but that the railways and the mines shall be nationalized and other public utilities municipalized, do not deny that they want to put a new life into private capitalism, and to stimulate commercial competition in the remaining fields of industry.

    Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling

  • Let us assume that the railways, mines, and the leading "trusts" are nationalized, public utilities municipalized, and the national and local governments busily engaged on canals, roads, forests, deserts, and swamps.

    Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling

  • Here was a premature attempt to municipalize the Briton, which outstripped the readiness of the Briton to be municipalized.

    Ancient Town-Planning 1889

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