They used the same word ("Lotokora") for both, and saw no competence-gradient, only one in resources: "Health centre staff is competent, but they do not have all the necessary drugs".
"They have exuded no competence at all".
Libyan business, it's clear, will be led by people of impressive competence and by people of no competence.
As for the criticism in Le Figaro, Calvel said he would not respond to the writer "because he has no competence in this matter".
"This could happen to anybody," he said, "if the police are going to have absolutely no competence when it comes to understanding e-mail or the Internet".
"The 'community method' can only be applied in those areas in which the European Union actually has competence," she said tersely, adding: "Where the community has no competence, the 'community method' clearly cannot be applied".
As a writer on health care policy, I am always taking a very opinionated view on policy issues, but I have to work hard to avoid straying into medical issues or evaluation of treatments in which I have no competence.
While free marketers will claim that national oil companies are less efficient than commercial ones, consider the fact that the private companies have demonstrated no competence in environmental protection, while given every incentive to do so.
In reality, Ryan is nothing like that; he's a hard-core conservative, with a voting record as far right as Michelle Bachman's, who has shown no competence at all on the numbers thing.
Japan's old growth-at-any-cost school of management assumed that it was always better to diversify than to face stagnation or (heaven forbid) redundancies even if that meant entering fields where the company had no production facilities, no technology, no suppliers, no customers and no competence whatsoever.
