Easy oil is now mostly in the hands of state-owned companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q & A: Why Oil Will Get Cheaper] Reference

He also demanded equal access to the state-owned broadcast media.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gambling Man] Reference

On the other hand, PEMEX, the state-owned oil company, is off limits politically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking The Reins] Reference

Now comes the latest blow to free televised speech: Star, yet another state-owned network.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Earlier this month it announced the formation of a new state-owned company called Energia Argentina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy Crunch] Reference

Indeed, some bidders suspect DT -- then 70 percent state-owned -- of deliberately driving up the prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faulty Connection] Reference

Worse, scores of these were assigned to the biggest ministries and state-owned utilities, where thieving is rife.    From Wordnik.com.  [LULA'S TRIAL BYFIRE] Reference

Yabran's agents allegedly stirred up strikes within the state-owned post office, driving Argentines to his company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death Of An Untouchable] Reference

A handful of Vietnam's 50 state-owned clothing manufacturers can compete with Chinese and other foreign competitors.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE LAST ASIAN TIGER] Reference

The Dresdner Bank alone opened 35 branches, and took over an additional 62 offices from the state-owned German Credit Bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wealth Of A Nation] Reference

Anything stronger than that must be purchased at a state-owned liquor store, and they're closed by 10 p.m. and all day Sunday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salt Lake's Big Jump] Reference

Unemployment is expected to rise after China joins the WTO, with uncompetitive state-owned enterprises laying off more workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tale Of Two Cities: Beijing] Reference

Further, these state-owned companies do not divulge how much they really own, or what the production and exploration numbers are.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Energy Wars] Reference

Still partly state-owned, Mediobanca had an inside track in the wave of privatizations that are still transforming Italian business.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Body Snatchers] Reference

Two weeks ago the state-owned Spanish defense company, Casa, agreed to a merger with Dasa, the German defense arm of Daimler-Chrysler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Serious?] Reference

One option would be for Pretoria to speed up the dispersal of state-owned land; the state and public entities own vast tracts of land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land Grab] Reference

"And this is a black hole because the ownership structure of the state-owned enterprises that control this money is not well-defined.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perils Of Thrift] Reference

Those reforms included neutral arbiters of land claims, buyouts of landowners and giving state-owned property to the poor and dispossessed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land Grab] Reference

His book, which finally reached stores early this year, was edited heavily by its state-owned publishers and released with minimal fanfare.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Toxic Republic] Reference

The Goldman Sachs economists figure that joblessness could jump 10 million in 1998 from the streamlining of China's state-owned enterprises.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guide For The Confused] Reference

They're mainly wealthy, highly educated Yuppies employed in the private sector, outside the embrace of government and state-owned enterprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of the Party] Reference

Just last week he ordered his ministers to draw up plans to sell off six state-owned corporations that build and manage highways and bridges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking On The Machine] Reference

After Russia's economy crashed in 1998, a financially vulnerable Media-Most allowed a giant state-owned company to become a large shareholder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Putting On The Squeeze] Reference

Small entrepreneurial companies like his would grab a huge chunk of business away from big state-owned monopolies, just as they had from AT&T.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dialing For D Marks: Phone Wars Hit Europe] Reference

He's hoping to revive the agricultural sector by turning state-owned farms into cooperatives, where workers can earn more if they work harder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 'Worms' Become Butterflies] Reference

A gigantic new West German state trust agency will take title to East Germany's massive, state-owned Kombinate (cartels) and other smaller businesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wealth Of A Nation] Reference

The gas executive argued that Gazprom's unpaid tax bill is far less than the total unpaid gas bill owed to Gazprom by state-owned industries and institutions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gases And Taxes] Reference

It will have to pass legislation that levels the playing field among pampered state-owned enterprises, foreign investors and the fledgling Vietnamese private sector.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE LAST ASIAN TIGER] Reference

After Russia's economy crashed amid devaluation and default in 1998, a financially vulnerable Media-Most allowed a giant, state-owned company to become a large shareholder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Putting On The Squeeze] Reference

The idea here, decreed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is to privatize state-owned industries and distribute shares to the people as a sort of national mutual fund.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Popular Is He Really?] Reference

Still, the country is beset by lagging reforms in other sectors; efforts to open up the state-owned electricity and telecom monopoly, ICE, provoked violent strikes last March.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Silicon Republic] Reference