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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - SEPTEMBER 06: USAID governance advisor Sara Buchanan (L) meets with Afghan Civil Service Commission Appeals Board director Maliha Hassan on September 6, 2011 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The U.S. government development agency plans to spend some $2.5 billion this year in...

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Japan's Government Revitalization Minister, also in charge of Civil Service Reform Renho speaks during a press conference at the Prime Minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011. Japan's new prime minister chose fresh faces and political unifiers for his...

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Government Revitalization Minister, also in charge of Civil Service Reform Renho, left, and Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Yoko Komiyama chat as they leave the prime minister's official residence for the Imperial Palace to attend the attestation ceremony in Tokyo, Japan, Friday,...

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Government Revitalization Minister, also in charge of Civil Service Reform Renho, left, Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Yoko Komiyama, center, and Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura leave the prime minister's official residence for the Imperial Palace to attend the attestation...

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Government Revitalization Minister, also in charge of Civil Service Reform, Renho enters the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011. Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda picked close allies Friday for key positions in his Cabinet as he tries to...

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Federal Minister of Civil Service and Public Enterprises Inge Vervotte attends a meeting marking the 10th anniversary of Belgium's Flemish Christian Democrat party (CD&V) in Hasselt August 27, 2011.

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Civil Service Employees Association union president Danny Donohue talks about a labor deal with New York state during a news conference in Albany, N.Y. , on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011. A five-year deal that would freeze wages for three years for 66,000 union members but would avoid hundreds...

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Residents shop at the Civil Service Consumer Corporation in Amman July 28, 2011, ahead of the fasting month of Ramadan. Muslims around the world abstain from eating, drinking and conducting sexual relations from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar.

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France's Minister for the Civil Service Francois Sauvadet (R) takes a picture with his mobile phone, next to minister of Solidarity and Social Cohesion Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin before the annual Bastille Day military parade on the Champs Elysees in Paris, on July 14, 2011.

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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (C) and France's Budget, Civil Service and Government Minister Francois Baroin leave the presidential Elysee Palace at the end of the weekly cabinet meeting on March 29, 2011 in Paris.

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Budget, Civil Service and Government spokesman Minister Francois Baroin arrives at the Elysee palace for the first cabinet meeting of the new government on November 17, 2010 in Paris. The reshuffle resulted in a leaner, more conservative cabinet, with several centre-right and left-wing...

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French Minister for Budget, Civil Service and Governement's spokesman Francois Baroin arrives for the first weekly meeting of France's reshuffled government, on November 17, 2010 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. The reshuffle resulted in a leaner, more conservative cabinet, with several...

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France's Apprenticeships and Training Minister Nadine Morano and Budget, Civil Service and Government Minister Francois Baroin (R) attend the questions to the government session at the National Assembly in Paris June 28, 2011.

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Austrian civil servants' union (GOeD) leader Fritz Neugebauer (R-L), Minister for Women and Civil Service Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek, Finance Minister Maria Fekter, Chancellor Werner Faymann and Vice Chancellor Michael Spindelegger attend a news conference after negotiations in Vienna...

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Austrian civil servants' union (GOeD) leader Fritz Neugebauer (R-L), Minister for Women and Civil Service Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek, Chancellor Werner Faymann and Finance Minister Maria Fekter laugh after negotiations in Vienna December 4, 2011. The negotiations ended with an agreement...

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French centrist party 'Le Nouveau Centre (NC)' deputy Jean-Christophe Lagarde (L) and Civil Service Minister François Sauvadet (R) attend the NC party's national council on November 20, 2011 at La Maison de la Chimie in Paris.

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France's new Junior Minister for Civil Service Georges Tron arrives to attend a weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris in this March 24, 2010 file photo. Tron, a junior minister in French President Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right government who has been accused of sexual...

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French Junior Minister for the Civil Service Georges Tron arrives at the Elysee Palace in Paris for the first ministers' weekly cabinet meeting after a government reshuffle in this November 17, 2010 file photo. Tron, a junior minister in French President Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right...

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From L-R, France's Budget, Civil Service and Government Minister Francois Baroin, Finance and Economy Minister Christine Lagarde and Interior Minister Claude Gueant attend the questions to the government session at the National Assembly in Paris May 11, 2011.

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French Junior minister for Civil Service Georges Tron delivers a speech during the weekly session of questions to the government on May 3, 2011 at the French national Assembly in Paris.

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France's Civil Service Junior Minister Georges Tron leaves the Elysee Palace at the end of the weekly cabinet meeting on April 20, 2011 in Paris.

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NANCHANG, CHINA - APRIL 24: People swarm into a school for the Civil Service Exam on April 24, 2011 in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province of China. About 38,000 people have taken part in the exam on Sunday.

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France's Budget, Civil Service and Government minister and government spokesman Francois Baroin addresses the press at the end of the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee palace on April 13,2011.

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France's Budget, Civil Service and Government Minister Francois Baroin speaks during the questions to the government session at the National Assembly in Paris April 12, 2011.

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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - SEPTEMBER 06: Afghan government worker Yasin Pukitin works on a new laptop purchased by USAID for the Afghan Civil Service Commission Appeals Board on September 6, 2011 in Kabul, Afghanistan. In the background is a portrait of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The...