Word: bureaucratice
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Like natural gas a decade ago, water is in short supply only because of outmoded laws and customs that prevent its sale to willing buyers in most states. The doctrine of prior appropriation has in practice meant "use it or lose it." Thus Utah, for example, diverts Colorado River water...
Gorbachev has already made startling progress by putting most of the country's industry on a self-financing system and encouraging private initiative in cooperative and individual enterprises. But the reform process has run up against bureaucratic resistance and opposition from traditional Communists, who see the profit motive as sinful...
With all the talk of opposition, a relatively new word in Soviet politics, the conference is seen as a heavyweight contest: Reformer Gorbachev in one corner, bureaucratic conservatism in the other. "It is a game of perceptions," says a Western diplomat in Moscow. "If afterward the perception is that the...
At the tenth-anniversary dinner for his spunky little journal, the Washington Monthly, Editor Charles Peters stood up and baptized his iconoclastic movement. "We're neoliberals," he told his disciples. That was in 1979, and since then, they have worked a quiet revolution. By exposing the dusty tenets of American...
But repairs for the accident stretched beyond the Carpenter Center railing, as Harvard aimed to sort out its bureaucratic jumble and prevent such a mix-up in the future.