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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
privatize .
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Examples
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And once Bill "privatizes" it, there will be no public accountability at all.
blogHOUSTON 2009
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The plan privatizes the health care system without controlling health care spending.
Wonk Room » Republicans Unveil Alternative Health Care Plan 2009
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The chair of the House Budge Committee has proposed a radical "Roadmap for America" that cuts taxes for the wealthiest and corporations, privatizes Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance plan, and repeals Wall Street reform to facilitate the next crash.
Mary Bottari: Nurses to Obama: Heal America, Tax Wall Street Mary Bottari 2011
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But a poacher privatizes what otherwise could be harvested by the community -- his gain is everyone else's loss.
Carl Pope: Learning from Africa Carl Pope 2011
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The chair of the House Budge Committee has proposed a radical "Roadmap for America" that cuts taxes for the wealthiest and corporations, privatizes Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance plan, and repeals Wall Street reform to facilitate the next crash.
Mary Bottari: Nurses to Obama: Heal America, Tax Wall Street Mary Bottari 2011
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I happen to prefer something that privatizes the whole thing.
UPDATED: Senate Republican pushes governor's ABC plan but prefers his own Rosalind S. Helderman 2011
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“In the past two weeks, Republican lawmakers have revived the prospect of privatizing Social Security and Medicare, starting with a push from Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), whose budget proposal radically slashes and privatizes the entitlement programs.”
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The $55.8 billion two-year budget pares from nearly every state program and agency, and it privatizes some of them, including some prisons and maybe even the Ohio Turnpike, if the legislature approves.
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In the past two weeks, Republican lawmakers have revived the prospect of privatizing Social Security and Medicare, starting with a push from Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), whose budget proposal radically slashes and privatizes the entitlement programs.
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The chair of the House Budge Committee has proposed a radical "Roadmap for America" that cuts taxes for the wealthiest and corporations, privatizes Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance plan, and repeals Wall Street reform to facilitate the next crash.
Mary Bottari: Nurses to Obama: Heal America, Tax Wall Street Mary Bottari 2011
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