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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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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The Great Escape (Blur album) (redirect from Mr. Robinson's Quango)
(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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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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Agencies of the European Union (redirect from QUANGOs of the European Union)
The European Union and Euratom have agencies, decentralised independent bodies, corporate bodies and joint undertakings which are established as juridical...
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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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Non-departmental public body (section Contrast with executive agencies, non-ministerial departments and quangos)
"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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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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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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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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Development (USAID) refers to NGOs as "private voluntary organizations". Quango: Quasi-autonomous NGO — often used derogatorily, these organizations rely...
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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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Bill Callaghan (section NGOs and QUANGOs)
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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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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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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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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public servant, termed by The Daily Telegraph as "Queen of the Quangos" and "The great quango hopper". She was the chair of the UK's Civil Aviation Authority...
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January 2004, Statistics Netherlands has been an independent public body, or quango. Its independent legal status enables the reliable collection and dissemination...
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or a free-lance captain(1960,98); and Dirk Kolff(1990), following both Quango and D.C.Sircar has surely settled the matter with his argument that many...
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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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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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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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accepted Hacker's offer of heading a well compensated "super-quango" on the abolition of quangos. This left Hacker to be advised entirely by civil servants...
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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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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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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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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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X-O-Dus, Crispy Ambulance, Stockholm Monsters, Minny Pops, The Names, Quando Quango, The Wake, 52nd Street and Happy Mondays. Gretton was proprietor of the...
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