He claims for the longest time that he can't remember whether he did away with her or not, and for the rest of the book Faulks gets to indulge in the unreliable-narrator game of cunning ellipses and selective, gradual revelation, which he manages competently.
Alternatively, those who possess a greater quality of life may be more likely to exhibit the skills necessary to self-manage competently.
Are multinational bodies such as the IMF doing all they can to prevent crises or, if they happen, to manage them competently?The financial upsets of the past two decades, and especially the East Asian crisis of the late 1990s, have yielded a mass of new information and spurred a great deal of activity under each of these headings.
We will never know just how much better the fight in Afghanistan might be going if it had been managed more competently over the past six years.
Martin said USA Track and Field had failed "to competently manage this matter".
He wrote: "People want a fairer, better Britain, but they also need to have confidence in the ability of a government to manage the economy competently.
He adds: "The abiding sin of the government is not that some ministers are rich, but that it seems unable to manage its affairs competently".
Despite Gordon Brown's celebrated handling of the banking crisis in 2008, in the face of a spiralling public sector deficit voters no longer trusted Labour to spend responsibly, tax fairly, and manage the economy competently.
The apology lobby, which extends beyond the Conservatives and now encompasses most of the mainstream media, cites opinion polls which show Labour was not trusted by many voters to manage the economy competently.
He writes: "Winning voters' trust to manage the economy competently, spend responsibly, and tax fairly will reinforce Labour's credentials as a party capable of tackling unjustified concentrations of wealth and power.
