Word: bureaucratic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shultz and the devaluation of the dollar, Church has won two awards for business and financial writing. Fascinated by the impact Simon has had on the public, Church notes: "Last year Simon was hardly known at all -even on Wall Street. I can't think of any bureaucrat who has ever come on so strong in one month. Today he is running, in effect, a tremendous part of our lives...
...cannot allow your statements regarding Professional Standards Review Organizations [Dec. 17] to go unchallenged. As a practicing physician for 15 years, I feel that I am the better judge of what is good for medicine than some Washington bureaucrat. Your article leads one to think that Americans are dying by the thousands because of the incompetency of the American doctor. Nothing is farther from the truth. American medicine is recognized worldwide as being the best...
...Kleppe, head of the Small Business Administration, does not fit the cautious mold of the Washington bureaucrat. A self-made North Dakota business success (Glass Wax), he keeps a pair of six guns mounted on an office wall, wears electric blue shirts with dazzling horseshoe cufflinks, speaks bluntly −and is now taking some perhaps inevitable lumps. Kleppe's most recent troubles began when he went to Congress to ask for an expansion of SB A lending authority from $4.3 billion to $6.6 billion. He ran into a barrage of allegations that suggested an embarrassing range of SBA malfeasance...
...what is a bureaucrat? A Customs Service border guard risking his life daily in the war against drugs and contraband? A Veterans Administration nurse laboring to restore the nation's Viet Nam wounded to health? The Forest Service fire fighter breathing smoke in Oregon and California at this very hour? A cancer researcher? The FDA technician whose revelations on thalidomide saved untold numbers of unborn babies from hideous disfigurement? The clerk who dispatches a Social Security payment to a senior citizen in your own family? Which of these bureaucrats would you trim from the federal payroll...
...counter-cultural kind who dresses down to rip you off. He pats your back with one hand, picks your pocket with the other. There was also the budding urban pol. He was one of the nicest but most difficult to live with. To see yourself as a future bureaucrat, a part of you has to have died a bit early in life...