Often, such computers are super-competent servants born in a lab and preprogrammed by engineers.
Success requires focus and hard work, which in turn require dedicated and competent public servants.
Their politics is not completely dysfunctional – ministries are filled with competent public servants.
And it needs an electoral council to run the vote made up of honest, competent public servants, not political hacks.
Key priorities are neglected; key functions are privatized; and key people, the competent public servants who make government work, either leave or are driven out.
Until the day when highly competent civil servants are hired more frequently and are allowed to progress to higher levels of leadership without having to become political; and until military officers are not merely revered, but called to account for their decisions, we will continue to witness those same congresspeople and senators shrieking about accountability.
Politically, he said, the loss of this "devoted and competent" public servant would be a loss for the French left, also the entire world.
A Mississippi reader writes: I wish that Hendrik Hertzberg ("Comment," June 28th), had not been so juvenile as to slander an entire diverse and long-suffering state by inserting the word "although" into his otherwise accurate reference to "Ray Mabus, the Secretary of the Navy, who, although a former governor of Mississippi, is an enlightened and competent public servant".
Second came the unveiling of new steps, among them a long-term project to restore the Gulf Coast, to be planned under the auspices of Ray Mabus, the Secretary of the Navy, who, although a former governor of Mississippi, is an enlightened and competent public servant.
Iorio had been described to me as a competent, unimaginative public servant, but in our conversation she sounded almost visionary.
