Word: bureaucratical
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Christmas Tirade. The ash-blonde, blue-eyed bureaucrat has found a new crusade. Having spent 15 years in her present civil service rank, G.S. 17, she has decided that she should be promoted to the highest grade, G.S. 18. Money is hardly the consideration, since the change would add only $695 to her current salary of $34,810. Besides, she is married to Millionaire Wayne Parrish, a former publisher. She says she would donate any salary increase to the Washington Animal Rescue League. "I'm fighting for a principle," she says. "Not so much for what it will...
...many citizens, including the veritable army of shawled grannies who still sweep the street of today's Russia. Mikhail Nozhkin, a young movie actor turned balladeer, sings of Auntie Nyusha, the tireless, smiling cleaning woman who sweeps up the messes of others. She is avoided by an immaculate bureaucrat, who fears he would dirty his clean hands if he touched her. While others want pensions and vacations, she never stops working. "Reactors are roaring, rockets are flying and radar surrounds us," goes the song, "but Auntie Nyusha just keeps on sweeping, just keeps on dusting, just keeps on cleaning...
...nosed into the riverbank, opened its bow doors and disgorged its human cargo at Hong Ngu. The Vietnamese were greeted by a white-shirted bureaucrat who shouted instructions over a bullhorn. There were tables stacked with forms to fill out and, near by, a tent city to shelter the refugees for the two weeks or so that will be needed to screen and begin relocating them...
...nine. Each talks of the reasoning and the decisions that brought him to Catonsville. Yet the book is not unsympathetic to the problems of the witnesses, the prosecution, and the judge. In only a few lines by the draft board clerk named Mrs. Murphy, the tragedy of the petty bureaucrat is bared...
...wouldn't dream of doing that," Mailer replied. "I'd rather use the money I earn to make movies than to give it to some bureaucrat I don't know. I'm not that nice...