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Almost 40 percent of the country's budget goes on the 57,000-strong civil service .
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As for the civil service , it had to be cut down to the lowest level necessary.
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Bureaucratic governments can do none of these things easily, thanks to their civil service regulations and tenure systems.
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I must confess that I would prefer to see a pigtail with an earring rather than the traditional civil service bowler hat.
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In January cuts had been implemented in the civil service to reduce the public-sector wage bill.
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Instead, he became preoccupied with civil service and tried to put more and more city employees under its protection.
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Yesterday civil service union leaders complained that security staff had initially treated it as a hoax.