Word: bureaucratice
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Even more distressing, Italians have awakened from the euphoria of their economic miracle to discover that many things are as bad as ever -- particularly government corruption and world-class inefficiency. In a best- selling new book called Lo Sfascio (literally, the crumbling, or collapse), Giampaolo Pansa, deputy editor of the...
Gorbachev's overall caution reflected the delicate balancing act he must perform to keep the party's conservative and liberal factions in line. Internal party tensions flared up dramatically at an Oct. 21 meeting of the policy-setting Central Committee, details of which subsequently surfaced in the Western press. On...
As a young Army major selected for a fellowship to the Nixon White House in 1972, Colin Powell came to the attention of two emerging bureaucratic stars: Caspar Weinberger and Frank Carlucci, director and deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. Powell was recruited into their inner circle...
That bloc worked to his advantage against his rivals for the prime ministership. While former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe could boast of wide- ranging international contacts and Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa could traipse through Japan's bureaucratic jungle blindfolded, Takeshita had the greatest leverage in the party itself.
A native of Mexico City, Salinas joined the P.R.I. shortly after enrolling as an economics major at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1966. De la Madrid, then a law professor at the university, spotted and encouraged Salinas' budding economic talents, and the careers of the men have been...