private

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Some highlighted the risk of investing in private companies, and the knowledge that losses are possible.

From BBC

There are other options like credit consolidation and personal loans in the private sector.

From MarketWatch

Quiñones’ hefty salary of $750,000, which drew attention when she was hired, was meant to be competitive with private utility companies.

From Los Angeles Times

"The pesticide residue tests and CDC biomonitoring data represent the kind of essential research that only the government can provide -- at a scale that no private sector or academic effort could match," he said.

From Science Daily

He also graduated from Stanford and now is president of the private school in Salinas, Calif., that he and his son attended.

From Los Angeles Times