Word: bureaucratice
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Still, that legacy could come undone if the pressing domestic problems of infrastructure, poverty, bureaucratic reform and corruption are not dealt with promptly. While most agree the latest elections further solidify democratization, others warn that the country's authoritarian past cannot be forgotten. "We are going back to a one...
As if the fallout from financial meltdown wasn't enough, there's another stiff challenge facing the world's investment-fund industry. Only this time it's from Brussels. Fresh E.U. proposals would require hedge funds, private equity and a host of other alternative investment funds to meet tougher regulation...
According to Dieter Krüger, a military historian at the Institute for Military History in Potsdam, it was only after France left NATO in 1966 that Germany's military role became stronger. "In the past, there was no idea of deploying German troops abroad, except in specific cases, like...
But some say the Bundeswehr, which is a conscript army, is too bureaucratic and ill-equipped to deal with the modern-day challenges of combat. "Germany's armed forces are often overstretched. There are too many bases in Germany, too many personnel and the equipment is often old-fashioned," says...
It was bad enough that Natalia Goukassian, then 21, had to spend her honeymoon in June 2006 in West Palm Beach, Fla., helping her husband Tigran find alternative treatments for connective tissue sarcoma, an aggressive cancer, or that six months later, the Air Force-enlisted man, 21, succumbed to the...