Word: bureaucrat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sylvia Mitraud, a Sao Paulo university student,was among those seduced. The daughter of a Brazilian economic-planning-ministry bureaucrat, she had been brought up to care more about her Portuguese enunciation than the environment. But Mendes' death taught her that the deadly tension between land and development was costing Brazil its future. "I realized that if we were going to survive, we couldn't continue with unsound environmental development," says Mitraud. Today the 32-year-old is a tireless activist for the World Wildlife Fund. On the road more than half of each month, Mitraud, who is single, shuttles...
...leaders who have the drive and decisiveness to hold the system together. Admired from Tokyo to Washington for his brains, integrity and ability to cut through swaths of red tape to get a job done, Zhu is considered the antithesis of the cautious, faceless, communist bureaucrat. "He behaves more like the CEO of an international corporation than a politician," says John Wadsworth Jr., chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia. "He's very 'American...
...also cemented his reputation as a tough manager who didn't hesitate to dress down his subordinates in public. At one meeting, he noticed an official smoking an expensive brand of foreign cigarettes and demanded to know how he could afford them on his salary. At another, a bureaucrat reported that his department had increased production that month "around 5% or 6%." Zhu broke in: "Comrade Bureau Director, is it 5% or 6%? Is it 5.1% or 5.9%? When it comes to statistics, we must be very exact...
...want your tax service to put the fear of God into you, to be firm but fair, and for there to be Serious and Severe Consequences if you don't comply with the full extent of the tax law. You want an agent that is a stern and jealous bureaucrat. Instead, what you get is a smiling guy wearing a blue and yellow button that says "At the IRS we work...
...Seaman was criticized in some quarters for being too hands-on, for doing too much. Hesselink says Seaman faced a mini-revolt in 1995-96 when some colleagues insisted that she see patients only during normal working hours or risk being sent home on the next plane. An MSF bureaucrat who replaced Hesselink as MSF's country director briefly banished Seaman to languish in Nairobi, before the bureaucrat was herself recalled to Holland. McHarg, Seaman's current boss, appreciates her special talents but also sees the need to go beyond emergency medicine. "If we pull out of Sudan tomorrow...