Word: bureaucratical
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...prosperous competitor. "Oz" Elliott, now 55 and dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, tells how he did it and how much fun he had along the way. He rose above his humble beginnings (St. Paul's, Harvard, old money and a family friend, Builder-Bureaucrat Robert Moses, who got him a first job on the New York Journal of Commerce) to become business editor at Newsweek in 1955. He and Colleague Ben Bradlee, now executive editor of the Washington Post, conspired to have Post Publisher Philip Graham buy the magazine, name Elliott editor and begin...
...himself encourages this, building an image in his annual reports and elsewhere of Harvard as a source of education and information for "real world" centers. He uses special mid-career programs and conferences to try to make the Kennedy School a training ground for virtually every middle management bureaucrat in government. He wants to direct business school professors away from preparation of case studies for class discussions toward publication of research on business problems...
...program is now virtually ignored; the Eighth Plan, covering 1981-85, will not even contain specific growth targets. In the past, programs directed by the French government produced too many white elephants, like the supersonic Concorde and the steelmaking complex near Marseille, that look brilliant to a bureaucrat but flop in the marketplace. Admits François de Combret, the top French presidential economic adviser: "A bureaucrat like myself, with his butt in a chair all day long, does not know
From the lowliest bureaucrat to executives in the boardroom, tens of thousands of Japanese eventually get involved, directly or indirectly, in the formulation of policy, either through the study groups or perhaps the nation's ubiquitous, highly effective industrial associations. Their job is to lobby the interests of member corporations before the government, a task eased by a bit of Japanese back-scratching known as amakudari-literally, descent from heaven. It refers to the practice whereby retiring top bureaucrats are quickly hired as top executives of the companies they once regulated. Yusuke Kashiwagi, a former Finance Ministry official...
...Lamb discounts the reports, fishes around in her desk and produces some xeroxed sheets emblazoned "Improving Capability to Mobilize Military Manpower: A Report by the Director of the Selective Service." "It's only a rough copy," she warns me. For each of the 28 pages of the report, some bureaucrat has pulled out his black Carter's ink pad and, top and bottom, boldly stamped the word "DRAFT...