And Medicare includes traditional government insurance, supplemental coverage sold by private carriers, and, increasingly, privately-issued managed care.
Indeed, it was private carriers who first introduced adhesive postage stamps in America.
By 2006, eight private carriers had sprung up to challenge the three state-controlled majors, Air China, China Southern and China Eastern.
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The state-owned monopoly that provided jet fuel refused to service private carriers on the same generous terms given the big three.
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However, few private carriers offer lifetime benefits any more.
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The minister also said that a promised merger announced last month between two private domestic carriers, Jet Airways and Air Sahara , would be permitted.
Commercial air carriers and private and corporate jets--not to mention lawmakers--have bickered over who will foot the bill.
The Government was proposing to whip against that motion - and was faced with the prospect of a substantial and embarrassing rebellion by its troops and - I hear - the resignation from the government of two parliamentary private secretaries, ministerial bag-carriers.
Those links can be expensive and usually require the local or regional wireline carriers to provide the circuits, although private microwave or fiber circuits are often employed.
The ATA also wants Congress to put more of the cost burden on "general aviation"--including private and corporate jet travel--which commercial carriers say is largely responsible for air-traffic delays at congested airports.
Other carriers have also projected steep rate increases during private meetings and conversations with brokers.
These are some of the promised fruits from the U.S. government's plan to sell wireless spectrum to the private sector, according to executives at leading mobile communications carriers.
Giles, a vice president at Marsh Private Client Services, a broker representing several high-end insurance carriers.
The number of companies in that predicament tends to swell when economic conditions are weak and credit dries up, but there are also many carriers in countries with unstable economies or political systems who cannot obtain private financing for their aircraft purchases.
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