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• service: Martin's years of starving our once proud health care system are still ricocheting as provincial governments dismantle and privatize such services.

• resource: The Bush administration's project was not, as is sometimes said, to purely and simply privatize Iraqi oil resources.

• system: Beside cutting taxes, the Dzurinda government brought the free market to health care and partly privatized the social security system.

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• most: Thursday 8 th September Cuba in the 1990s privatized most of its farms.

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• partially: Out of the 27 state capitals, 25 are served by public companies and 2 by partially privatized companies.

• newly: Employees in newly privatized businesses benefit from improved pay, conditions and career opportunities.

• fully: It also fully privatized the safety reviews for several categories of medical devices.

• recently: The UK's railways, recently privatized, are now split into over 20 different networks.

• partly: Beside cutting taxes, the Dzurinda government brought the free market to health care and partly privatized the social security system.