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The Economic Times MNC units abroad to come under drug regulator scanner The Drugs Controller-General of India (DGCI) will soon start sending its officers to foreign countries to inspect the manufacturing facilities of multinational pharmaceutical companies importing drugs into India.
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Encyclopédiste and friend of Voltaire and the philosophes, Anne-Robert Jacques Turgot, was named Controller-General of France, the most powerful ministerial position in the kingdom, by the newly crowned King Louis XVI.
Voltaire Shank, JB 2009
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Controller-General, without his appearing in the business; he had the place which was agreed upon, and the hope of a still better, and he entrusted to me the King's correspondence, which I told him I should not mention to Madame de Pompadour, according to her injunctions.
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On the 3rd of November, 1783, he was made Controller-General, but lost the post in 1787.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue
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Controller-General, without his appearing in the business; he had the place which was agreed upon, and the hope of a still better, and he entrusted to me the King's correspondence, which I told him I should not mention to Madame de Pompadour, according to her injunctions.
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Controller-General, Beaumarchais, the two strangers, two handsome women whose names I will not mention, and a collector of taxes, I think a M. Lavoisier.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various
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Controller-General, without his appearing in the business; he had the place which was agreed upon, and the hope of a still better, and he entrusted to me the King's correspondence, which I told him I should not mention to Madame de Pompadour, according to her injunctions.
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Under-Secretary for J.stice and Controller-General of Prisons, &c.J. Beck, Esq.,
Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders Report of the Committee of Inquiry Appointed by the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare, K.B.E., C.M.G., Minister of Health New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders
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T.e Secretary for Justice and Controller-General of Prisons, Mr S.T. Barnett, wrote as follows:
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On the 3rd of November, 1783, he was made Controller-General, but lost the post in 1787.
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