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There were competent writers on interesting subjects who were just careless enough in their spelling and punctuation to keep a girl occupied.

There were competent but boring sets from the Fuzztones and the Chesterfield Kings (who were introduced by Mr. Springsteen) and the Mooney Suzuki and the Woggles and (yikes!) the Pete Best band and dozens more.

The outbreak shows that the response demands a level of coordination that can be effectively performed only where there are competent domestic institutions.

"I hope the whole house will welcome the fact that they now say, in their new advice: always consider whether there are competent workers available locally.

Find out more There are competent city guides from Footprint (£7.99, good listings) and Lonely Planet (£11.99, stronger content), though both lack the most recent hotels and restaurants.

If we agree that there are potentially as many competent female candidates as there are competent male candidates, then we can only assume that their exclusion is because of discrimination.

Sure, there are competent sportbikes that sell for well under $20,000, but many well-trimmed touring machines edge up into this territory.

"There are competent people who will manage the system the way it is," said Obama about you-know-who, and, of course, the crowd cheered that no, they wanted someone braver and better and maybe even... younger.

For every political, philosophical or religious view one may endorse, there are competent and well-informed people who disagree.

We have seen that there are competent speakers of English, such as Michael Resnik, who don't share these intuitions.

I'm happy to report that -- finally -- there is competent, easy-to-use "password-management" software.