quasi-public body

Did the deal amount to a quasi-public body bailing out a private real estate enterprise?

Since he left the agency, he was general counsel to the city's Rehabilitation Mortgage Insurance Corporation, a quasi-public body formed to provide such insurance for residential housing.

Responsibility for lighthouses was later shifted to Trinity House, a quasi-public body, but lighthouses continued to be financed by 'light dues' collected from ships, not from general taxation.

During part of 1984, Mr. O'Connor also was executive director of the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, a quasi-public body that arranges financing for housing developments.

A quasi-public body underwritten by Congress, its purpose was to offer American money to third-world nations for economic development while insuring the investment against the risks of political upheaval and expropriation.

Six hundred of the units have been purchased by a quasi-public body, the Housing Opportunities Commission, which also provides low-interest financing to purchasers of the other units by floating tax-exempt bond issues.

Under a 1994 agreement with the Connecticut Development Authority, a quasi-public body, Mr. Karamanos is free to take the Whalers elsewhere following the 1997-98 season if the team has lost $30 million by then.

Mayor Melvin R. Primas Jr. said that use of a site owned by the South Jersey Port Corporation, a quasi-public body, would have a negative impact on the city in terms of image and in the development of its waterfront.