Oil workers and others in state-controlled companies oppose ending the monopoly.

First, to what extent are executives at state-owned or state-controlled companies considered "public officials?"

Today the term is also used to refer to state-controlled companies in some states of the British Commonwealth.

Investment advisers also say other state-controlled companies could be bargains if they are permitted to earn market rates on their operations.

These efforts included plans to sell state-controlled companies to private investors and raise domestic gasoline prices, which remain among the world's lowest.

Turkey recently put this state-controlled company, its biggest steel maker, on the auction block.

The article said some people thought the Government would use the market "to unload state-controlled and government-backed companies."

Some 40 state-controlled holding companies have arisen in autos, aircraft manufacturing, oil and natural gas.

The state-controlled companies and agencies are not likely to default on their securities.

The cabinet committee responsible for getting the large number of state-controlled companies into private hands has repeatedly put off meetings.