Word: bureaucratice
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Late last week, however, the FDA bucked its own bureaucratic tradition when one of its advisory committees recommended that a similar drug made by Bristol-Myers Squibb, called DDI, or dideoxyinosine, be put on the market even though it has not undergone the agency's standard testing. While the decision...
Another problem is that Soviets lack what Oberlin President Starr terms "horizontal links among citizens," the clubs, professional societies and voluntary associations that in other countries foster the habits of political give-and-take. At the end of the 19th century, Danish historian Georg Brandes called czarist Russia "a bureaucratic...
How the mighty have fallen. In what used to be the German Democratic Republic, the Communist Party is an anorectic shade of its former self. With a peak membership of 2.3 million, it once embodied East Germany's political, intellectual, military and bureaucratic elite. Now reborn as the Party of...
The A.N.C. was doomed to fall short of the absurdly high hopes inspired by Mandela's release from prison in February 1990. But the organization has genuinely dismayed many South Africans with its increasingly strident demands, its role in township violence, its muddled ideas about nationalizing parts of the economy...
How did the Weather Service get into such a mess? Part of the problem is bureaucratic: the NWS falls under the sway of the Commerce Department, which has never shown much understanding of or interest in the science or technology of weather prediction. Pinched by tight budgets and layoffs over...