It proved to be a highly efficient servant of the arts.
Although corruption has been a feature of Nigerian society since long before independence in 1960, in the 1960s and 1970s the country was blessed with many outstandingly honest and efficient civil servants.
These reformers resisted the GOP demands for patronage to select efficient civil servants.
Broadly speaking, Simon is on the side of bringing the marginalized in from the margins; for good neighbors against bad ones and for principled or at least efficient public servants over rabble-rousing, self-approving loudmouths.
On July 4th the General Secretariat of the Executive Council (GSEC), Abu Dhabi's top policy-making body, which reports to the ruling council under Muhammad bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the crown prince, fired almost all its foreign staff.Some 60-70 people are thought to have got the chop, including many of the emirate's most efficient senior civil servants.
They rejoice in matrimonial bliss while surrounded by a household of efficient and grateful servants.
An "efficient and loyal servant", in historian Hoyt Williams's words, he was "a jack of all trades, [who] arranged audiences, transcribed documents, visited the jails, and conferred with the Dictator on most routine matters.
In this way, he would help to supply "efficient" missionaries, "useful" civil servants, and "distinguished" Boden scholars.
His public persona, particularly as the secretary of the Methodist Conference, was that of an ultra-efficient ecclesiastical civil servant, but he was much more than that.
Usually, her evening task consisted only of kissing it good night, for the Mannings were fortunate in their Italian servants, who were efficient, loyal, and cheap.
