Word: bureaucratic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty did, however, offer what any good bureaucrat would consider the next best thing to a slot on the agenda--it appointed a committee "to examine the issues." Although the Faculty planned to form the committee by the end of the '68-'69 academic year, it did not name the members until August, and the committee in turn did not meet until September. And no Faculty members recall hearing a committee report. On professor said he thought Giles Constable '50, professor of History, might have reported, but Constable denies ever sitting on such a committee...
...moral outrage. But the notion that his music's meaning could be made intelligible to Stalin, or to anyone else, was only a comforting illusion. Stalin, like all Russia's other tyrants, held an attitude toward the arts that was best summed up by a bureaucrat in a story by the 19th century satirist Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin: "What I do not understand is dangerous for the state...
Prime Minister and acting president Choi Kyu-hah is "a stooge at best, a bureaucrat with no power whatsoever," Reischauer said, explaining that Choi is merely one of a basically moderate leadership which shares the public's desire for more democracy...
...industry, agriculture, and defense. Under this great national enterprise, comparable perhaps to the building of the Great Wall or to the U.S. moon program, China expects to have 800,000 scientists and engineers by 1985, more than double the present number. Says Vice Premier Fang Yi, the shrewd bureaucrat who is China's minister of science: "It is not a loss of face to admit that China is backward compared with the West and Japan. But we are determined to close...
...party on the week-long trip. A small, balding and very nervous man has been handed the microphone--his voice is a mix of officious timidity. He's losing his audience. Content to find their own information, the crowd drifts away. The reporters gather around the monseigneur and the bureaucrat who are holding the seats for Pool Bus one. There is a friendly reminder that all pool reporters must share their information with each other. There are mild guffaws...