Word: bureaucrat
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...policy aiming to educate native children in white Australian culture. Portraying their escape from the training camp, the film follows the girls as they avoid professional trackers and attempt to find their way home using the country’s long rabbit fence. Director Phillip Noyce avoids painting the bureaucrat in charge of the program (Kenneth Branagh) as a one-dimensional villain, opting for a more sophisticated view of the racial superiority that is still found in Australia. Rabbit-Proof Fence screens...
...Shang, 51, spent the bulk of his career as a bureaucrat at China's central bank, the People's Bank of China. His star rose there in 1994, a troubled time when inflation hit 24% and the economy was hobbled by a myriad of off-the-book loans between corporations. Zhu Rongji, then China's Vice Premier, was determined to untangle the mess. In meetings on the issue, "Shang impressed Zhu with his ability to cite numbers off the top of his head," recalls one of Shang's former bank colleagues. In addition, Shang is "likable and gives...
...transferred to the University of Wyoming in Laramie, where he majored in political science. There Cheney landed his first political gig, an internship in 1965 with the state senate, which was controlled by the G.O.P. It was his first engagement with the Republican Party. His father, a career federal bureaucrat with the Soil Conservation Service, and mother, a homemaker, were staunch Democrats who were proud their son shared a birthday with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But Cheney would never leave the embrace of the G.O.P. When he was a Republican Congressman, his father would kid him that "you can't take...
...Mexico A BUREAUCRAT BY ANY NAME A referendum sought to change the name of the state highway commission to the state transportation commission. Passed...
...publication of the diaries of EDWINA CURRIE, who disclosed that between 1984 and 1988, when both she and Major were married and serving in government, they shared a passion for more than just Tory ideology. Major, who became Prime Minister in 1990, had a reputation for being a bland bureaucrat, an image reinforced by his "Back to Basics" campaign, an attempt to upgrade the image of the Conservative Party after several members were caught in sex scandals. With Currie offering details about three-hour "exercise" sessions, many Britons are discovering a newfound admiration for Major, who has admitted...