To an extent unprecedented except possibly in Song times, Ming government was dominated by nonhereditary civil service officials recruited on the basis of competitive written examinations.
He published his views on the topic in the 1988 book "Winning the Brain Race: A Bold Plan to Make Our Schools Competitive," written with Denis P. Doyle, and his passion caught the attention of the first Bush administration, which tapped him to join the Education Department as a deputy secretary in 1991.
The candidates were subjected to a competitive written test.
It's highly competitive, folks," wrote respected polling expert Nate Silver on Wedneday, citing his website's modeling analysis.
"If we don't back this technology, we will miss a massive opportunity to help families with their bills and make our country more competitive," Mr. Cameron wrote.
The definitive text, "Competitive Strategy," written 25 years ago by a Harvard professor, Michael E. Porter, is comprehensive but complicated: there are five factors to master fully.
As a child, he let his imagination run free in Dungeons & Dragons-style role-playing games and, a little later, in a kind of competitive creative-writing club with a friend.
In a piece about how few Congressional races this year were truly competitive, Stuart Rothenberg wrote in Roll Call that "Democrats would have a hard time cherry-picking enough districts to get to 218 in the House," which would give them a majority.
"This, eBay claims, would put the company at a competitive disadvantage," writes J. Angelo Racoma of The Blog Herald, "since sellers who would rather not report their actual income from auctions and eBay sales might move elsewhere" (blogherald.com).
