Potentially, this has significant implications for a euro referendum, since it was widely assumed that the full weight of the government machine and perhaps even the European Commission would be behind a Yes campaign.
The results are a mixture of typical midterm protest and "rage against the machine, " said Tony Travers, director of the government department at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Parts of the government machine respect the CAG.
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This creates a sort of government staffing perpetual motion machine, with agencies adding more and more headcount just to satisfy the demands of other government agencies.
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That group of brainiacs came together to devise a new, even easier hack that allows someone with no special access to take complete control of a Sequoia AVC Advantage voting machine -- an example of which the team purchased legally at a government auction.
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The answer lies in a huge yet barely acknowledged shift of power within government: from the civil-service machine to ministerial personal advisers and spin-doctors.
In a new report entitled Retooling the Soviet Military: Dangerous Decontrol Actions on Machine Tools, the Center expressed concern about the wisdom of the United States government and allied nations delegating decisions affecting their vital security interests to representatives of commercial concerns with a vested interest in weakening the technology security regime.
Bletchley Park was the wartime home of the Government Code and Cypher School which broke the codes generated by the German Enigma machine, using the Bombe.
He sees government as an industrial machine, though he lives in the age of the network.
The government's strategy has been to treat imports of capital goods, such as machine tools, relatively generously (to help Kia and its peers improve their manufacturing), while clamping down on imports of western consumer goods, such as cars.
After months of prevarication, the government meekly gave in a fortnight ago to a demand that the new machine-readable Pakistani passport should note a person's religious status.
There was sniper fire and exchanges of small-arms and machine gun fire throughout the day around the sports stadium, where rebels had advanced on government lines.
With spending on a tight leash, the government fell back on the relentless hyping of inconsequential initiatives designed to feed the 24-hour news machine and give an impression of activity.
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