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  • Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats will not get the top job, but they will get several senior ministries, including the Foreign Office and the ministries of Finance and Justice.

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  • At the direction of Congress, we have established the Office of Global Security Risk within the Division of Corporation Finance.

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  • An investigation into possible violations of campaign finance laws was headed by the office of Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett the man chosen by the former top lobbyist for the Fiesta Bowl, and a recipient of the tainted campaign funds.

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  • Katsuhiko Kumazaki, the head of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors office, probed into corruption at the Ministry of Finance and in the banking industry in 1997 and netted several indictments.

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  • Following Watergate, a scandal far worse than what we have seen thus far, Congress and the president adopted a number of major government reforms that included a new campaign finance system, ethics rules, the Office of the Independent Counsel, and much more.

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  • The court was told by Jonathan Smith, a finance office at the House of Lords, that 90% of peers claimed expenses and of that 90%, 85% claimed the maximum amount.

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  • Ms Hood, 41, is currently head of finance at Microsoft's Office division.

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  • The truth is that each of these operates as a branch office for the City of London, the square mile that is the epicenter of finance in London.

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  • Among the five Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) candidates for party leadership, and the office of prime minister, Noda, having served for two years as minister or deputy minister of finance, was the only one to advocate a temporary tax increase to fund 3.11 disaster recovery and reconstruction.

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  • Mr Kiely admitted he ran an unlicensed money lending business, which changed when he obtained a licence from the Office of Fair Trading last year for his firm Millennium Finance Limited.

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  • Last month the insurer hired Paul Achleitner, formerly head of Goldman Sachs's Frankfurt office, as its finance chief.

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  • Nonetheless, the battle with debt was a sobering lesson and spurred the tycoon to hone his knowledge of international finance, inviting academics to his office for private tutorials.

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  • During his gubernatorial campaign, Mr. Cuomo proposed granting that office the jurisdiction to prosecute criminal and civil violations of campaign-finance laws.

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  • By 1978, when Mr Deng returned from yet another political exile to assume power, China's formal financial system had shrunk to a single institution, the People's Bank, whose head office was made up of 80 people buried within the Ministry of Finance.

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  • Since GE owns two Utah finance companies, it is now overseen by the Office of Thrift Supervision, the agency in charge of AIG and one not known for its stringent examinations.

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  • Kim came into office with promises to revamp a number of areas - notably, politics, finance, chaebol (conglomerates) and labor - but his efforts have run into strong resistance.

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  • Reid's health care bill, which will be given a cost assessment by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, also includes a provision from the Finance Committee bill allowing for the creation of nonprofit health care cooperatives that would negotiate collective insurance coverage for members.

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  • He has held public office only twice, as finance minister for a year in 1993, and as head of the tax service for three months in 1998.

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  • Mr Zaldivar had his first taste of office in the 1960s when, still aged under 30, he was picked as finance and economics minister by President Eduardo Frei, the current president's father.

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  • In future, foreign investment banks will need to move deeper into corporate finance and asset management, reckons Nicholas Hurd, head of Fleming's Brazil office.

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  • Chapman and Cutler LLP, a Chicago-based firm focused on finance, also opened an office in New York in 2009 near the depths of the crisis in the financial services industry.

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  • In comparison, Greater Manchester Police's PCC office lists that it has a total of 42 staff, including a chief executive, policy advisors and a finance team.

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  • Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) concerning release of the Senate Governmental Affair's Committee's report on campaign finance irregularities, Thompson's office confirmed.

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