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 > brazenly states its objective is to further "the foreign policy goals of the United States." ---p176
-DfID (the UK agency) is notably more committed to independent evaluation of its aid projects than most other aid agencies.  At the other extreme, the UN system contains much of the most absurd conference-, report- and meeting-driven time-wasting, and various examples of their nonsense are cited.((See a spoof of UN document generation at [[http://www.unosdg.org/]].))
+DfID (the UK agency) is notably more committed to independent evaluation of its aid projects than most other aid agencies.  At the other extreme, the UN system contains much of the most absurd conference-, report- and meeting-driven time-wasting, and various [[http://www.unosdg.org/|examples of their nonsense]] are cited.((See a spoof of UN document generation at [[http://www.unosdg.org/|UNOSDG]].))
 > To be fair, there is incomprehensible language [like that generated by various UN agencies on a continual basis] also in private-sector documents, such as investment prospectuses or engineering designs.  The difference is that in private-sector documents, the jargon actually has some meaning to specialists.  In UN documents, the jargon has no substantive content for anyone. ---p176

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