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I wondered if you knew that the term BINGO (NI 383) has become established with a very different meaning? BINGO is 'Business Interest NGO' in distinction to PINGO pin·go  
n. pl. pin·gos or pin·goes
An Arctic mound or conical hill, consisting of an outer layer of soil covering a core of solid ice.



[Inuit pingu.
 'Public Interest NGO'.

We and others have pressed UN bodies to draw a distinction, rather than lumping lumping Reductionism Clinical decision-making The practice of aggregating diseases or pathologic nosologies with variably distinct features under a common term. Cf 'Splitting.'.  all NGOs together.

Mike Brady Mike Brady may refer to:
  • Mike Brady (golfer)
  • Mike Brady (musician)
  • Mike Brady (Brady Bunch): character played by Robert Reed on the television program The Brady Bunch
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Title Annotation:Letters
Author:Brady, Mike
Publication:New Internationalist
Article Type:Letter to the editor
Date:Mar 1, 2006
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