Word: bloat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Provost Albert Carnesale says the recent report by Harvard's largest union--which claims a $25 million administrative bloat--is misleading...
...serrated language to cut their opponents; Democrats were to be described as traitors and with such adjectives as sick, corrupt and bizarre. Gingrich eventually became such a cult figure among young Republicans that supporters considered publishing a comic book with him as the hero fighting bureaucratic bloat...
...dished out in humongous portions that would satisfy Godzilla. Graphing the size of McDonald's largest burgers, from the Big Mac to the Double Quarter Pounder and the Triple Cheeseburger, is like watching America's appetite grow before your eyes. And yet that seems downright modest compared with the bloat at movie- theater concession stands, where candy bars have tripled in size since the '70s. "It's a food and utensil explosion," says Gail Frank, a professor of nutrition at California State University at Long Beach. "For a thousand years we had one glass size -- 8 oz. Then...
...takes aim -- yes, again -- at bureaucratic bloat and red tape...
...takes aim -- yes, again -- at bureaucratic bloat and red tape...