Word: borenized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...James H. Boren has been sitting beside his Washington telephone waiting for Jimmy Carter to call. Unless there is some contact within the next few days, Boren and his followers will assume that the coming Administration is headed toward trouble, another victim of the federal bureaucracy...
...President who sets foot in this town without a full briefing on dynamic inaction, decision-postponement patterns and creative status quo cannot go very far," says Boren. "I've studied Carter, and I think he has great potential if he will just listen. If he does not, he will be residuated* into oblivion. Carter must understand that in this city we cut red tape lengthwise. He should know the difference between vertical and linear mumbling (a mumble can never be quoted). After all, bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean...
...other city, Boren would be little more than a lovable prankster. But his continuing spoof of bureaucratic outrages has hit the mark so well that he has gained semi-status by using one of his own dicta: "If you can't beat them, don't just join them, lead them...
...Ph.D. from the University of Texas and a nine-year bureaucrat, Boren is now head of an engineering and design firm but spends half his time lecturing, writing books and otherwise flourishing as "Founder, President and Chairperson of the Board of the International Association of Professional Bureaucrats (INATAPROBU)." He has an office in the National Press Building, a supply of wall-poster maxims ("Nothing is impossible until it is sent to a committee") and an estimated 970,38 enthusiastic members in 17,3 countries. They have dinners, annual meetings ("If you don't have anything...
...Boren predicts new life for his movement with the coming of the Carter people. Carter has pledged to reorganize the Government, and many of Boren's terms and analytical devices may be put to new use. "The measurement of the gestation period of an original thought in a bureaucracy is still pending," he points out. One Boren policymaking imperative could be established at places like the Brookings Institution. It goes: "When a bureaucrat makes a mistake and continues to make it, it usually becomes the new policy...