Word: bureaucrat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gingrich said the welfare state as we know it is fundamentally flawed and as such has failed America. "[The welfare state] reduces a citizen to a client, makes him subordinate to a bureaucrat, with rules that are antifamily, anti-progress, anti-opportunity," he said. "You cannot maintain a civilization where 12-year-olds are having babies, 15-year-olds are killing, 17-year-olds are dying of AIDS, and 18-year-olds receiving diplomas they cannot read," he said...
...start leveling the regulatory mountain, Hosokawa will first have to evict bureaucrats who thrive in its shelter. The bureaucracy has effectively run Japan for the past four decades, and it battens on its power -- not to mention the plum private-sector jobs that go to many senior government officials when they retire. A recent study by Tokyo Shoko Research, for example, discovered that nearly 1 in 5 construction-company board members is a former bureaucrat...
Voters are disgusted. Polls show Dinkins and Giuliani locked in a statistical dead heat; the only movement is the rising disapproval ratings for both of them. Neither candidate is getting across a message that he can be an urban Mr. Fixit. Dinkins comes off as a courtly but unimaginative bureaucrat with a taste for fussy clothes and fancy ceremonies. Giuliani has a reputation as a humorless autocrat with an abrasive management style that involves shooting first and asking questions later...
...hurt. You don't know who this is?" Joe does not know who this is. Unless this is the Widener bureaucrat Joe called for an explanation of the mysterious $193.67 library fine on his term bill, Joe does not want to know who this...
Government-sponsored urban-renewal schemes are bad almost by definition, since they derive from the bureaucrat's impulse to tidy up, to eradicate funk and chaos in favor of large-scale orderliness; planners fail to see the trees for the forest. During the past couple of decades, the relentlessly-raze-and- rebuild notion of progress has been overtaken by a mania for historic preservation, which is a great improvement. But preservationism can also tend toward the prissy, the anal and the monomaniacal and become a kind of by-the- book undertaker's approach that makes dead and dying downtowns prettier...