Maybe the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is an arm of the government, after all.
Why, that would be the National Health Service, an arm of the government.
The lawsuit also raises an important question: Is the FDIC an arm of the government, or something entirely different?
Teachers have accused the inspection system of being misused as an arm of the government's policy of expanding academies.
Sixteen of the 41 Chinese companies on the list are owned by an arm of the government dedicated to managing state assets.
The grand-daddy of Internet services is Minitel, the ubiquitous on-line data service created by France Telecom (an arm of the government) in 1978-82.
An arm of the government and the World Bank set up a program two years ago that is similar to one in Bosnia.
This appropriation may not be evaded by use of a nominally private entity if the entity is in reality an arm of the government and the government is able to direct how the money is spent.
Among the MFIs' biggest critics is Budithi Rajsekhar, boss of the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty, an arm of the state government formed in 2000 to run its own microcredit programme.
One was Temasek, an arm of the Singapore government, the other Davis Selected Advisors, a New York investment management firm.
Last June it signed a deal with Microsoft and an arm of the Chinese government to create a software joint venture that will supply IT outsourcing services and employ 5, 000 people outside Beijing.
Last June it signed a deal with Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and an arm of the Chinese government to create a software joint venture that will supply IT outsourcing services and employ 5, 000 people outside Beijing.
In addition, some current and former Afghan officials say, Kabul Bank became an unofficial arm of the Karzai government, bribing parliamentarians in order to secure votes for its legislative agenda.
Uncle Sam gave the economy an unexpectedly large shot in the arm in the last quarter of 2001: government spending rose at an annual clip of 9.2%.
Wednesday's hearing stems from an investigation of the credit card industry completed in September by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the auditing arm of Congress.
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