"He is a no-nonsense administrator who sticks to the real agenda of educating the kids," said Ms. Glapion, who is black.

"He's a very effective, no-nonsense administrator," said Martin S. Begun, associate dean of New York University Medical Center, who has known Dr. Jones for 10 years.

The next year the Rev. Brandon Jackson, a cleric with a reputation as a no-nonsense administrator, was appointed Dean.

Lord Hanley, a bluff, no-nonsense administrator who had learned his trade as governor of the Punjab, was appointed chairman.

In the case of NCIS Director Leon Vance, it's generally accepted that he's a tight-lipped, no-nonsense administrator, who can be downright adversarial with Gibbs.

Off the field, it comes from a no-nonsense athletic administrator named Sharon McCloskey.

After Ikwechegh's death, Orji described him as an intelligent and no-nonsense administrator.

She had a reputation inside the Bureau for being a no-nonsense administrator who didn't suffer fools and who got results.

He wrote a book, Pakistan Leadership Challenges, in which Kalabagh comes across as a sound, no-nonsense and commonsensical administrator, firmly wedded to the values and traditions of the feudal class.

Although critics describe her as unfailingly courteous, she is known to be a tough, no-nonsense administrator.