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Quango
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Quango
Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organization. An organization, which itself is not part of the government, to which the government has given a large degree of power, as a regulator or in another capacity. A prominent example is the Water Services Regulation Authority, which regulates sewage in the UK, among other things. However, it is not part of the government. The term is most common in the British Isles.
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This is what's happening in Ireland when you have quangoes, and groups and power struggles.
You'll make us proud; TAOISEACH PRAISES IRISH TEAM AS THE GAMES BEGIN ... by The Mirror (London, England)
Finally, some of the Pathfinders – quangoes appointed by John Prescott and his successors – clearly failed to bring local people on board, creating the misleading impression, whipped up by sections of the national press, that whole swathes of the north were being bulldozed by Prescott.
How Pathfinder lost its way by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
The speech contained two policy announcements - a pledge to complete the missing link of the M8 Glasgow-Edinburgh motorway, and a promise to scrap a quarter of Scotland's 200 quangoes.
SNP calls for independence by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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