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Cities: Capitals -- administrative, Pretoria; legislative, Cape Town; judicial,
One of the positions is administrative, which is being eliminated due to the recent implementation of Salesforce. com software, used in the advertising and billing departments.— National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals
The CRS contains records of administrative, applicant, criminal, personnel, and other files compiled for law enforcement purposes.— 911Blogger.com - Paying Attention to 9/11 Related Alternative News
Every prefect in France became an electoral agent to do his bidding For the first time too, I believe, even in French administrative history, all the employees of the post-offices and the telegraph offices were transferred from the control of the Director of Posts and Telegraphs to the direct control of the Minister of the Interior Under his control they still remain, and it is now proposed to attach these services permanently to the Ministry which manages the elections.— France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
Take any grounds--administrative, strategical, religious, domestic--he was preeminent above his contemporaries.— The Tragedy of St. Helena

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