"It is a clear case of quasi-public funds distorting the commercial environment, " said Anthony de Larrinaga of SG Securities.
"We were like a quasi-public company without a board of directors, " says one veteran EDS executive, who quit last year.
Facebook has been a quasi-public company for a couple of years now, thanks to the rise of the private share market.
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Transparency is vital for what is, in effect, a quasi-public institution, says Charles Elson, a professor at the University of Delaware.
The fundamental public-private conflict of the GSEs means the taxpayer will always be lender of last resort to these quasi-public organizations.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two quasi-public mortgage insurers that bought warehouses of bad mortgages, are still wards of the state.
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Then Governor Ed Rendell (D) promised a clean-up of the quasi-public agency.
But the rise of digital books has prompted a profound shift in the way we read, transforming the activity into something measurable and quasi-public.
It wants an exemption written into the Freedom Bill, a piece of civil-liberties legislation currently percolating through Parliament, which would protect the right to protest in quasi-public spaces.
Instead of having just two kinds of schools, public or private, America will have a palette of choice, including voucher-redeeming public schools, voucher-redeeming private or parochial ones, quasi-public charter schools, quasi-private charter schools and home learning.
Chris Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank played large roles in our recent financial disaster, encouraging the government-backed, quasi-public agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to keep funding and guaranteeing mortgages for those who would not otherwise qualify.
Although the economic pain that is being inflicted on Russia and the ex-tigers is out of all proportion to the policy errors of their governments, the fact remains that the vulnerability to financial crisis was created not by international speculators and other bogeymen but by woefully inadequate oversight of domestic finance, private, public and quasi-public.
One proposal, from Senators Jon Corzine and Christopher Dodd, is to look into creating a new oversight body akin to the quasi-governmental Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
For three decades they have acted as quasi-official regulators of public debt markets, and yet enjoyed the fat fees of financial intermediaries, all the while escaping the brunt of attacks on bankers, auditors and the rest of the financial industry.
The areas on which the database focuses are central government, local government, police, NHS (including GPs), the armed forces, emergency services, universities, the judiciary and quangos - quasi-government arms-length agencies that fulfil a public service role but are not directly controlled by government.
Some professors speak of quasi-privatisation this year, public universities will get less from the state than from tuition fees for the first time since Mr Brown's father, Pat, devised the system as governor in 1960.
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Quangos, or "quasi autonomous non-governmental organisations", are unelected public bodies.
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Quasi-independent since 1970, the post gets no public money.
It is not an elected body, it does not involve itself in public disclosures, and it even has a quasi-secret budget in the billions of dollars.
In this religion-diluted quasi-democracy, where politics tends to be expressed in ritual public chanting or sullen private apathy, the contest has evolved unexpectedly into a bare-knuckled slugging match, complete with taunting rhetoric, dirty tricks and colourful, rowdy fans.
In 2009 the DPJ ran on a quasi-populist and anti-establishment platform, promising on domestic policy to change the central government bureaucracy dominated, wasteful public works project spending driven, and big business and agricultural lobby favoring model of governance that basically described LDP government that had already backtracked on reforms made during the tenure of Koizumi Junichiro (2001-2006).
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