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Pioneer Press Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:45:31 -0700
Private funds eye public projects

WASHINGTON - Someday, the Carlyle Group may want to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. Really. ... Robert Dove, who is co-managing Carlyle Infrastructure Partners, says his team can run most airports, highways and water systems better than the public authorities and governments now doing the job, and make a profit for investors to boot. But transportation analysts say they expect opposition to the idea of government handing over key roads, ports and utilities to profit-driven private firms that do not have to disclose much about their business. ...

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