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That will put it on a more commercial footing and help to maintain its professional independence.

But the government kept control of rates and did little to modernize the distribution system or put the state utilities on a commercial footing.

"They're putting their financial sector on a commercial footing.

Despite the succession of owners, no one managed to put Maserati on a firm commercial footing.

IT took the watermen many years to make the discovery that put the soft-shell trade on a sound commercial footing.

"Building a solid commercial footing for chess," is how Mr. Rice characterized it.

'BR will switch on to a commercial footing and something will have to go.'

As a by-product of perestroika, Moscow is keen to reduce and restructure its aid to Nicaragua, and to put it on a more commercial footing.

Beatrice was a talented clothes designer and seamstress and together they set about putting 'The Ped'lers' onto a commercial footing.

After the war, his interest in printing was such that he decided to try to establish the Press on a commercial footing, and did so in Cambridge in 1949.

The management of the jurist and entrepreneur Count Sigmund von Haimhausen from 1758 ensured that the factory was placed on a sound commercial footing.

Ms. Burke has been linked with Mr. Small's efforts to put the Smithsonian on a more commercial footing, especially after attendance plummeted following the 2001 terrorist attacks.

The Samson Press was unusual for being run by two women, on a commercial footing, at a time when women found it very hard to find practical employment in the printing industry.

A recent PBS special has put Mr. Botti on the same commercial footing with figures like Yanni and John Tesh.

Is the government's new 'block funding' of YTP a move to put YTP workshops on a commercial footing, requiring them to make a 'profit'to survive?

Frowde regularly remitted money back to Oxford, but he privately felt that the business was undercapitalized and would pretty soon become a serious drain on the university's resources unless put on a sound commercial footing.

Johnny Mathis and Dionne Warwick, who have performed together frequently in recent years, may be the reigning exponents of a full-blown pop romanticism that seems more valuable the more it loses its commercial footing.

It says two Darlington pubs the Hole in the Wall and Lascelles Park are operating well under the new leases and that they are a unique way of putting pubs on a proper commercial footing.

"For the most part, the structures have remained Soviet, and have not been well adapted to the realities of capitalism," said Mr. Shyvdkoi, whose goal is to "slowly, gently" introduce changes that will put Russia's theaters on a more commercial footing.

These problems, combined with the government's intention to pursue a programme of privatisation of public organisations, led in 1988 to the PSA being put on a commercial footing, and obliged to bid for project work in open competition with the private construction industry.

That light shines radiantly through the revelations of "Secrets and Lies," which won the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes International Film Festival and will now establish this once insular English film maker on a much broader commercial footing.

If the opening up of markets is to make a contribution to revitalising the production structures, it can do so only insofar as the fundamental principles of regulation and equity are combined, that is, the various producers need to respect the common rules that put them on an equal commercial footing.

Beijing tried to put the banks on a commercial footing in 1994 by setting up three new institutions to take over the job of financing big state-owned enterprises, the ones that employed so many people that for the sake of social and political stability they could not be allowed to fail.

After the Icewine production was set on commercial footing, Canadian Icewine quickly became popular with domestic consumers and reviewers, and many other Canadian producers and regions picked up the idea, since the harsh Canadian winters lend themselves well to the large-scale production.

Erm, Chair, on the general financial position, it's, it's what I referred to earlier, as moving from somewhere where there were a direct employer or where we were grant-aiding a voluntary body to get on to a more, ultimately a more commercial footing, where we relate the money that we're paying to the services that are being provided.