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But she said she still had to demonstrate interest and competence to get a seat on the board, which she did in her late 20s after paid and unpaid work with various grant-making charities and nonprofit organizations.

Recent polls show that the majority of Americans want government to deal with a wide range of pressing issues -- but do not have faith in its competence to get things right.

It's the pursuit of competence, wanting to get better at something, that fuels the skill-building process.

"This whole delay in the Pagoda Project is really due to the planning department's lack of competence to make a decision and get work done," Mr. Sarachan wrote, referring to a proposed building that he said would be the greenest in Berkeley.

The country needs to show the competence and understanding to get it right.

The idea was both to get competence and to break the link with money.

Like it or not, even in this age of the talk show, it remains a mark of male competence and even honor to get on with the game.

He added: "We've got to get competence back in the Department of Corrections, but the first and most important thing to me is get those folks out of my house.

"Anything he touches, you know you are going to get incredible competence and thoroughness and a great evaluator's touch.

While the commission's technical services were fighting an unrealistic battle to get treaty competence for education, Delors and Lamoureux were adamant that education systems should be national responsibilities.

If she can draw a line under Rudd's errors, get a grip and establish competence quickly, Julia Gillard is likely to get Labor back on track for re-election.