Word: bureaucratic
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...characters tend to get frustrated with bureaucracy and take the law into their own hands. But if voters make Clint Eastwood's day on April 8, he will be the top bureaucrat handling the law in the picturesque California hamlet of Carmel-by-the-Sea (pop. 4,700). Last week, listing his profession as director-producer, Eastwood, 55, filed a petition to run for mayor. Complaining that the incumbent was ineffectual, the new candidate wrote, "We need leadership, experience and some old-fashioned logic to get back on the track." He pledged to deal with such problems as parking, tourism...
...plodding bureaucrat whose soft drone is regularly drowned out by the assertive tones of his rivals. Another is a different kind of Milquetoast, one who talks tough but is steering American policy away from stern anti-Sovietism back toward wishy-washy detente. A third is no Milquetoast at all, but a policymaker who has so thoroughly won the trust of his chief that he speaks with an authority exceeded only by that of President Reagan...
While Theriault and other participants eyeing the future contemplated studying public sector management for the first time, a town of 3500 almost had to give up its top bureaucrat for a year...
...drafted to fight a war against Libya, I would. This doesn't mean I think the nation should go to war with this outlaw state, it shouldn't. Nor do I think my decision is making some Pentagon bureaucrat sleep easy tonight...
...started with a dead bug. The squashed insect dropped into a typewriter at the Ministry of Information Retrieval; a bureaucrat typed the name Tuttle instead of Buttle; and poor apolitical Mr. Buttle, instead of the swashbuckling terrorist Tuttle, was taken away to be tortured and killed. Dear me, mistakes like this will happen in the Anglo-fascist fantasy world of Brazil. Imagine that Nazi Germany had colonized Britain after winning World War II, and you can visualize the film's architecture: mammoth and soulless, with huge intestinal piping that snakes through every elegant living room and posh restaurant. Imagine that...