This was considered to be an efficient and effective way of ensuring that the information reached the appropriate individuals.

The state should not be in the business of producing goods and services because it's inefficient and incompetent.

If the Executive Board decides to reject the registration of a proposed project activity and if a DOE is found to be in the situation of malfeasance or incompetence, the DOE shall reimburse the Board for the expenses incurred as a result of the review.

Incompetent military leadership was aggravated by the Italian military's equipment, which predominantly dated back to the First World War and was not up to the standard of either the Allied or the German armies.

All that I wanted was a competent lawyer for a specific task and I don't think it will effect me or the Egyptian state whether he was Jewish or Shinto or even an adherent of the sacred carrot!

All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

I was thinking, I just finished making another film about World War II vets, and I realized I'd gotten to know their stories, and I realized this was a once in a lifetime opportunity to tell a warrior's story as it unfolded.

Ben Bernanke, the nominee to replace Alan Greenspan this month as Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board, is a highly capable economist who has devoted his professional life to understanding the historical role of central banks and the problems that they have faced.

In 2004, WCO issued volume 3 of the Compendium entitled A Secure and Efficient Transit System Guidance to Members on the Establishment of a Secure and Efficient Transit System , intended to assist member States with the development of a secure and efficient transit system.