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  • You may as well ask them who their Comptroller is and/or treasurer is.

    Matthew Yglesias » Halter’s Long Odds 2010

  • "Comptroller" is the second or third most boring word in the English language.

    The Biggest Race You Haven't Heard Of Daniel Henninger 2010

  • Comptroller is an elected position, the duties of which include acting as investment adviser to the city's roughly $103 billion in public pension money.

    Comptroller's Ireland Trip Questioned Michael Corkery 2010

  • But for Alan Hevesi, a reasonably affluent, well-educated intelligent and articulate elected official, descendant of rabbis, state legislator for 23 years, two-term Comptroller of the City of New York, Professor of Political Science at Queens College, recipient of a Ph.

    Henry J. Stern: Jail to the Thief Henry J. Stern 2010

  • Although this decrease in prison population must be a source of satisfaction, the Comptroller is by no means satisfied, for he points out that these figures are swelled by habitual drunkards and vagrants, who are constantly going in and out of prison, and who are convicted many times over during the year; one man alone having over twenty convictions in the year.

    Criminology in the British Empire 1907

  • The state's check-writing office is open after three-term Comptroller

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • The state's check-writing office is open after three-term Comptroller

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • In the race for governor, no Democrats have formally announced, though Quinn says he's running and three-term Comptroller Dan Hynes has told leading Democrats he will make the race.

    chicagotribune.com - 2009

  • Quinn's top rival for the Democratic nomination, three-term Comptroller

    chicagotribune.com - 2009

  • Quinn's top rival for the Democratic nomination, three-term Comptroller

    chicagotribune.com - 2009

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