As part of an anti-corruption drive, it purged some of its cleverest officials and locked up several foreign businessmen (in horrible conditions), though two were recently freed.
And will it motivate those clever senior officials whose help inexperienced ministers need so much?
But an election looms around then, so clever Treasury officials will find more ruses to disguise the wreckage of the rules for example, by setting a higher debt ceiling for the new economic cycle.
There's evidence that the war or weed is slowly ending, but that hasn't stopped clever law enforcement officials like Eyster from trying to squeeze every red cent out of prohibition his restitution process is the worst sort of "reform".
We see a murder in a novel, and then we watch and wait until the layers of plot are revealed through a satisfying, often surprising, set of procedures that make us appreciate how clever the detectives (official and unofficial) can be.
Complaints came in, not about the cooking, but about the name on the side of the food truck: Wandering Dago, which Ms. Loguidice and Mr. Snooks had thought was cheeky and clever, but which racetrack officials deemed simply offensive.
He's a top-class player and he's clever enough that the officials don't see it".
If this was some official's clever idea to show Chinese Internet users who is really in charge, it certainly hasn't worked out as planned.
Yet he has impressed American officials as a clever politician who is seeking to build the European Parliament into something akin to Congress.
