Before the series of administrations began in 2008, the company had 300 stores employing almost 3,000 staff.
Another ambiguous term is the word "treatment," which for radionuclide therapies involving planned repeated administrations may refer to one administration or a series of administrations.
A series of administrations from both the right and the left have implemented so-called "mano dura," or "iron fist," crackdowns on gangs.
Brown's remarks also puts him at odds with the Obama administration which, as a condition for states to compete for a series of government grants, including the administration's signature Race to the Top competition, has relentlessly pushed states to develop even more extensive data collection efforts.
Gradually, in fits and starts, a series of Bush administration officials — including Condoleezza Rice, Stephen Hadley, Jack Goldsmith and John Bellinger — tried to rein in the excesses of the Bush-Cheney period.
Deborah Platt Majoras, the chairwoman, is the latest in a series of Bush administration officials to leave in the last year of the president's second term.
The obstacles were outlined in a recent series of internal administration reviews that describe the Afghan Army and police as largely illiterate, often corrupt and poorly led.
With members of Congress from both parties facing pressure from voters to accomplish something, the logjam could break this summer, giving the president a series of victories, administration officials say.
He said DfiD must do more to track how consultants and multilaterals use its money and ensure it "is not being frittered away along the delivery chain in a series of unknown administration fees and charges".
After all, he just made public a series of Bush administration torture policy memos that authorize the very methods for inflicting pain and suffering that the Abu Ghraib photographs represent.
