Word: bureaucratical
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...bureaucrat said recently. AID staffers are painfully aware that the public and Congress are tired of foreign aid and put up with it mostly because Presidents keep insisting that it is necessary...
...White House lawn last week were 4,800 college students-the better part of 7.900 just winding up summertime Government jobs (TIME, Aug. 17). "I wonder," said the President, "if we could ask how many have become interested in either becoming a politician or a civil servant or a bureaucrat as a result of this summer?" Perhaps 500 hands went up. "What about the rest of you?" he asked. The kids laughed. So did Kennedy, as he began taking them on an informal tour through history...
...heavy, coarse, masculine nouns, signifying something huge, strong and powerful, which reminded me of the whale." In horror he finds whales swimming into his own conversation-"a whale of a time," "the Prince of Wales." Martyrdom's Delusion. In this superb social satire, Erih Kos, himself a Yugoslav bureaucrat, dissects the evils of conformity with a fanciful touch that scarcely disguises the depth of his intent; his message is reminiscent of lonesco's Rhinoceros-the battle for individuality is worth fighting against any odds. When Big Mac was published in Yugoslavia, orthodox critics and even...
...include Andrei Kirilenko, 55, a member of the Party Presidium, who surprisingly bounced back from disfavor; Gennadi Yoronov, 50, who was recently promoted to full membership in the Party Presidium with overall responsibilities in the make-or-break job of raising agricultural production. Apart from these men, any unknown bureaucrat may come out on top, and for reasons the West will never know. Khrushchev himself was merely one of ten members of the Party Presidium when Stalin died...
...their visitor may not understand. Since nearly all dioceses in the world are short of priests, bishops are reluctant to let their best men work in the Vatican. Moreover, few non-Italian priests want to give up the hope of becoming a bishop for the life of a church bureaucrat. "I'd rather be a bishop in the poorest diocese in the world," admits one priest now in the Vatican, "than a cardinal in the Roman Curia...