Word: bureaucratical
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...been suggested that the ordinarily stingy Soviet government paid Ames up to $2.7 million over the approximately ten years he worked for them. Perhaps the money the Russians had to offer was simply irresistible to the greedy and increasingly decadent mid-level bureaucrat...
...calling up unofficial transcripts, would surely be able to oblige The office, on the other hand, confirming that it indeed had the ability to do so, demurred that it was not allowed to print out an unofficial transcript. "But," replied the staffer with the cultivated courtesy of a Harvard bureaucrat, "you will get an unofficial copy in your registration packet." When said transcipt was not in said packet, an inquiry at the Registrar's table was met with a puzzled look: "You were misinformed, Ma'am. Try Garden Street." After shuttling between several commodiously appointed offices in the conveniently located...
...spirals of DNA, he likes to observe, is harder than locating the proverbial needle in a haystack. "At least a needle looks different from a haystack," he says, "but a gene is just another piece of DNA." His love for lab work won't let Collins become merely a bureaucrat. He has already established his own research center at the National Institutes of Health so he and colleagues can continue their search for errant genes...
...Clinton or Canada, I take the status quo. The American health system is the best in the world. It has saved the life of people I know, more and more of them as I grow older. I'm not going to dilute it to please some power-tripping bureaucrat who got his law degree when Abbey Road was released...
...drive through the lush countryside, we are stunned that this island cannot feed itself. But the perversions of Soviet-style agriculture have left their legacy. To trade for Russian oil, Castro converted much of Cuba's arable land to sugar. A government bureaucrat sighs as he tells the potato story. During the cold weather in Russia, Cuba would grow potatoes and ship them all to Moscow. Then six months later, when the Russian harvest came in, Moscow would send a year's worth of potatoes back to Cuba, where they would have to be stored in huge refrigerated warehouses...