Without the oversight such quasi-public institutions are expressly designed to avoid, the Port Authority built highways, airports and office complexes.

Some of the funds are connected to private employers, while others are quasi-public institutions.

Separation of regulatory functions from other business functions has already occurred at other quasi-public institutions.

The Sulzbergers may have felt it their duty to be hypercritical with their young heirs, future caretakers of a quasi-public institution.

In order to make the building a quasi-public institution, the estate had invited the Maritime Library to occupy it.

Another Catholic school, Villanova, joined the following year, and Pittsburgh (Pitt), a quasi-public institution, joined in 1982.

The Fed, a quasi-public institution, has a mandate to support liquidity as the "lender of last resort" but not solvency, which resides with government regulators and bankruptcy courts.

Established in 1913 by the Federal Reserve Act to provide central banking functions, the Federal Reserve System is a quasi-public institution.

These are quasi-public institutions that receive public subsidies all the time, and yet we treat them as private entities.

Mr. Spitzer reiterated his assertions that Mr. Grasso's pay was unreasonable for the head of a quasi-public institution like the stock exchange.