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I read that Inspector Mingay was quoted as saying that "No amount of training could have prepared me for what I saw on arrival at the scene."
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Ray Mingay, director general of exports promotion in the
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"Companies tell us that on one hand they want to invest, but they still experience day-to-day impediments," Mingay said, warning that if Zimbabwe did not improve on its shortcomings, it risked loosing potential investors to other more attractive countries in the region and abroad.
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Mingay said that feedback from British companies already in operation in the country and those intending to invest, was rather mixed.
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In fact, I told Admiral Mingay in response to a query long after the war that I thought that those five years were the ones in which I had more fun than I had ever had in any other five years in my life.
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In the medical area, Mingay pointed out that South Africa has had spectacular success for selective treatments of salivary gland and advanced breast cancers and said: 'to date these facilities have been available only in the USA, Russia, Japan and Sweden.'
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Mingay also discussed the importance of nuclear technology in monitoring radiation levels and called for more awareness of natural environmental causes of nuclear radiation.
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As an interesting aside, Mingay told the audience that during the April election in SA, the monitoring corps were not equipped with mobile kitchens but rather were supplied with irradiated pre-prepared and packaged steaks and meat preparations.
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Mingay, no less than 'unruffled Samuel Salt,' were all real persons, and were called to the Bench of the Honourable Society by those very names.
Obiter Dicta Second Series Augustine Birrell 1891
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Among the surrounding promenaders, he and the one-armed Mingay seemed to be the main objects of attraction.
A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866
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