Word: bureaucratice
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For two days after his return to Moscow, Gorbachev had seemed out of touch with events. Shocked by his temporary ouster and perhaps distracted by his wife Raisa's poor health, he retreated into the safety of bureaucratic routine. He closed himself away in the Kremlin and used television speeches...
European and, to a lesser extent, Japanese scientists have begun to surpass their American counterparts. In the U.S. the scientific community is beset by a budget squeeze and bureaucratic demands, internal squabbling, harassment by activists, embarrassing cases of fraud and failure, and the growing alienation of Congress and the public...
Despite a long career in local and state government, Schaefer has never developed a tolerance for red tape. During his temporary stewardship at the department of human resources last month, he encountered the kind of bureaucratic bottleneck that irks him. An office had run out of food-stamp forms. "I...
In these espionage novels, impudent crimes were committed on both sides of the Berlin Wall. There was a peculiar similarity to the sunless corridors and bureaucratic fatigue of Moscow and Washington. Enemies became interdependent and sometimes indistinguishable; it was a case of the left hand strengthening the right. George Smiley...
MIA families often take reported sightings seriously not only out of their desperate desire to believe but also because they do not accept the government's word as final. The Pentagon's bureaucratic bumbling, secretiveness and mixed signals have led some families to feel there is a conspiracy to conceal...