• A quango (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization) is an organization to which a government has devolved power, but which is still partly controlled...
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  • Quango or Qango may refer to: Quango, an acronym meaning "quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation" Quango Music Group, a music label Quando Quango...
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  • (e.g. "Dan Abnormal" is an anagram of "Damon Albarn"). "Mr. Robinson's Quango" was the first song recorded for the album and "It Could Be You" was the...
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  • Quando Quango were a British electronic music group, formed by The Haçienda DJ and Factory Records A&R man Mike Pickering, Hillegonda Rietveld and Reinier...
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  • Prewar television stations Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom Quango Television in the United Kingdom All pages with titles beginning with BBC...
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  • Quango Music Group is a record label founded in 1995 by Bruno Guez. Island Records distributes their releases. Over the last decade, Quango has developed...
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    devolved assemblies of the United Kingdom. They are also commonly known as Quangos. Agencies can be created by enabling legislation by the Parliament of the...
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  • quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations (quangos). This was styled in the national press as a "bonfire of the quangos", making reference to Girolamo Savonarola's...
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  • Legislative definitions of an agency of the federal government of the United States are varied, and even contradictory. The official United States Government...
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  • "Mark Thomas story on Quangos". 2002-12-12. Archived from the original on July 4, 2008. Retrieved 2014-04-01. "UK's 'useless' quangos under fire". BBC News...
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  • (IMBEL; English: Brazilian War Material Industry) is a Ministry of Defence quango, founded in 1975, which coordinates industrial activity related to the planning...
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    1954), is a British businesswoman known for her involvement in a number of quangos (an acronym for quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations). Penelope...
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  • No Sun in the Sky (Jalapeno Records UK, Quango Music USA, 2007) Keep Me Home (2006; Jalapeno Records UK, Quango Music USA, P.I.A.S. Benelux, 2006) Bacardi...
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  • non-ministerial government departments and non-departmental public bodies (or "quangos"), each of which enjoy legal and constitutional separation from ministerial...
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    The European Union and Euratom have agencies, decentralised independent bodies, corporate bodies and joint undertakings which are established as juridical...
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    Section 25 – "Back To Wonder" / "Beating Heart" (production, 1983) Quando Quango – "Love Tempo" (production, 1983) The Durutti Column – "I Get Along Without...
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  • and provide businesses with information and advice. It is operated as a quango, guided by the Wet op de Kamer van Koophandel (Chamber of commerce law)...
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    The authority was established to replace a range of joint boards and quangos and provided an elected upper tier of local government in Greater London...
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  • Sir William Henry Callaghan (born 19 May 1948) is a British trade unionist who is Chairman of the Legal Services Commission, the organisation responsible...
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  • The 77s The 88 801 Ai (Universal Sigma/Island) Aleka's Attic Alex Reece (Quango/Island) Alexei Sayle The Albion Country Band AlunaGeorge Alan Bown Amazing...
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  • Hillegonda Rietveld, he was joint founder, writer and producer of Quando Quango, and he later founded M People, for whom he wrote and produced many songs...
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  • 3:11 4. "End of a Century" 2:56 5. "Tracy Jacks" 4:09 6. "Mr. Robinson's Quango" 5:02 7. "To the End" 4:18 8. "Fade Away" 4:20 9. "It Could Be You" 3:13...
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    Technology Agency, was a non-departmental public body (popularly known as a Quango) funded by the Department for Education and its predecessor departments...
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    flood plains. In the 19th century, the Kwango River was also called the Quango, especially in the works of explorer David Livingstone. The Rund Kingdom...
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    The London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) was a quango agency set up by the UK Government in 1981 to regenerate the depressed Docklands area...
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    in late 2017, the government announced that it would be delivered by a quango, the East West Railway Company Ltd, rather than by Network Rail. The plan...
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    (KSH), Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈkøsponti ʃtɒtistikɒji hivɒtɒl]) is a quango responsible for collecting, processing and publishing statistics about Hungary...
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  • 7 "Jobs for the Boys" 7 April 1980 (1980-04-07) Hacker is kept in the dark over a doomed building project, and discovers that it takes two to quango....
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    Year Artist Title Album 1984 Everything But The Girl "Native Land" Quando Quango "Atom Rock" b/w "Triangle" Sandie Shaw "Hand In Glove" (also co-wrote) b/w...
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    two first met in 1984 when the Smiths guitarist contributed to a Quando Quango track that Sumner was producing. Later in 1988, Sumner was frustrated because...
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