Word: bureaucratice
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Compared with other government anterooms in Moscow, the lobby of the three- story, neoclassical building just across from the Zoomagazin pet shop at 22 Kuznetsky Most Street exudes a civilized calm. Near the entrance a red-and- gold sign proclaims that the public is welcome 24 hours a day. Two...
Three years after perestroika was introduced, its effects on day-to-day economic life remain meager to the point of near invisibility. Grocery shelves are even barer than they were two years ago, partly because of bad weather conditions. Gorbachev's determination to force industry to become "self- financing" -- to...
Leonid Abalkin, director of the economic institute of Moscow's Academy of Sciences, blames bureaucratic mistakes, a drop in energy prices and even high clean-up costs after the Chernobyl nuclear accident for the lack of progress. But he also points a finger at the "inconsistency, indecisiveness and halfway measures...
"It took a lot longer than it should have," LeBlanc said. "It was stuck in a bureaucratic rigor mortis."
But in bringing back Sasso, Dukakis was careful to spare Estrich's feelings at the cost of the bureaucratic coherence of the campaign. Instead of reassigning some of the top staff as the effort expanded, Sasso just worked around them, relying on new, more seasoned hands that he recruited. As...