But, as governments became less malevolent, an exercise designed to extract value from the populace became one whose purpose was to improve the quality of administration.
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The promise made by the Chilean government to improve the quality of state administration is more alive than ever.
The tackled areas have been project and change management, quality, and lean administration.
Mr. Zhi also serves as director of China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, which oversees product quality.
The General Administration of Quality Supervision said that between January and October last year it conducted 59 recalls involving 2.75 million cars.
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The recent cases prompted China to announce temperature checks on people traveling back from Cambodia, according to the country's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.
An official surnamed Xia said the General Administration for Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine had heard about the recall but could not comment because they were investigating the case.
The Chinese State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said the amount of the chemical found in the milk would not cause ill effects in adults who drank less than two liters a day.
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Li Yuanping, spokesman for the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the industry watchdog, said at a news conference in Beijing on Saturday that 643 dairy producers, 55 percent of 1, 176 nationally registered, passed the AQSIQ inspection, China Daily reported.
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Citing comments from the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), Beijing News says the Meiji stocks on sale in China through official retail channels were imported from the firm's Australian factories, while China's ban on baby milk made in Japan is still in place.
Corp said it received a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration related to quality concerns at its Portage, Michigan facility.
The Obama administration has also made quality measurement a focus, rating the private health plans that operate in the program.
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However, we have never seen the details of the quality assurance, independence, and firm administration findings in U.S. inspection reports for the Big Four.
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EU-related legislation the would-be members are enacting, but on the quality of their implementation of law and their administration.
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It's an embarrassment for the Bush administration, which has trumpeted the quality care at Walter Reed and other military hospitals.
It is also the quality Mr Bush stressed above others to distinguish his administration from Bill Clinton's.
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My Administration remains committed to ensuring access to quality health care that includes preventive services for women.
You spend a lot of time thinking about market strategy, budgets, profits and losses, negotiating with the central administration and raising revenues while also maintaining quality and efficiency.
The collaborative work of the EPA, General Services Administration (GSA), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the dozen additional agencies represented on the e-waste task force that developed the National Strategy over the past eight months is an example to all who manufacture and distribute electronic products.
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The Obama administration says only about three in 10 are in high-quality programs.
The US government alleges that Wells Fargo lied about the quality of mortgages it handled, leading to huge losses for the Federal Housing Administration.
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Supporters of the direct primary care approach see the pilots as a way to show Congress and an Obama administration eager to reign in Medicare spending that the concept can provide quality medical care and lower costs.
Top-quality architects are often used to sell projects, particularly given a push by the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg to improve design.
In the price-sensitive world of fund administration, the goal is to automate as much as possible, including quality controls and determining and reconciling differences in results between the main fund administrator and the shadowing firm.
Today, the Administration is releasing new guidance to health insurance plans to help ensure children get the high-quality care they need.
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