Word: bureaucratical
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...open face, wide-set eyes and ready grin, even his prematurely gray corn-silk hair, somehow evoke the state where he was born 47 years ago. At the same time, there is something very Washington about Gates -- the slightly self-satisfied air of the successful bureaucrat who has managed to survive in a city where survival is sometimes all it takes to succeed...
When usually closed-mouth CIA employees are willing to go to the press and before Congress, you know the guy is in trouble. The folks who run around toppling governments don't like him because he's a desk-occupying bureaucrat. The analysts don't like him because he's a hard-ass to work for. And we shouldn't like him because he's a certified brown-noser who has gotten to the top by modifying intelligence to please his superiors or, if we give him the benefit of the heavy doubt, looking the other way while the Iran...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts received a $500 million budget windfall when a mid-level bureaucrat discovered a loophole in the federal health insurance codes...
...bureaucrat--whom Gov. William F. Weld '66 declared his "favorite employee on the state payroll," received a $10,000 bonus. Go figure...
...bureaucrat--whom Gov. William F. Weld '66 declared his "favorite employee on the state payroll," received a $10,000 bonus. Go figure...