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the comptrollers
noun
The chief accountant of a company or government.
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A brief filed by all the Comptrollers of the Currency since 1973, however, takes a different view.
In Washington, even the comptrollers within the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency cannot agree on what to call themselves.
And when such gentle measures fail, the comptrollers wrote, the agency "does not hesitate to take aggressive enforcement action against national banks".
The threat of action by the federal regulators, the comptrollers stated, is "a significant incentive for national banks to address any compliance issues before they become serious problems".
Mr. Sharp's somewhat defensive version is that lawmakers used a state surplus that year to pay for school improvements and that the comptrollers then and now overestimated what the new business tax would collect.
The comptrollers said that, among other factors, the mayor's budget does not sufficiently take into account the effects of a looming economic downturn or the likely cost of labor contracts with city employees.
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Education and Health Centers said it disagreed with the comptroller.
The comptroller has issued several detailed recommendations.
"The comptroller was a little overzealous".
John Liu, the comptroller, has gone even further.
The comptroller said the polls were irrelevant.
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