Word: bureaucratical
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Finance Minister, Giscard always seemed to be a cold, remote bureaucrat. But he set the country on its ear at his very first presidential press conference, declaring: "I aim first of all to dust off the republic." That is precisely what he has done. From his low-keyed inauguration and his subsequent stroll along the Champs-Elysées, Giscard has launched an all-out effort to stamp his presidency as young, relaxed, liberal and open...
...nation like France to be governed by people all formed in the same mold. E.N.A. graduates are brilliant, no doubt about it, but they've not worked much in factories or sold many ties in the street." Which could be useful experience for the truly well-rounded student bureaucrat...
...Yale, teaching law. Professor Douglas thought most of his students were "spoiled brats." His legal articles on high finance prompted Joseph P. Kennedy to bring him to Washington, D.C., in 1934. He soon succeeded Kennedy as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission under Franklin Roosevelt. The professor turned bureaucrat quickly became a regular at F.D.R.'s "command performance" poker games. He also became the President's favorite martini mixer (chilled glasses with lemon rubbed on the rim, and just a taint of vermouth...
...DISCLOSURE of the name did in fact cause the Afro appointment to fall through, it is easy to see why the bureaucrat would think that revealing publicly the discussions of the search committee "was a very bad thing." Similarly, if Bok's advisors are afraid to speak frankly because they suspect their advice will be open to public perusal, it is understandable why the bureaucrat would not want committee reports to become public information...
...point is that the liberal president of a liberal university--like the president of a nation--should not be so quick to assume the purely efficiency-minded bureaucrat's point of view. In fact, if the university president believes in the liberal and democratic ideals which his faculty teaches and which he so freely espouses in defense of academic freedom and his other favorite causes, he should want to avoid the bureaucratic viewpoint like the plague...