Word: bureaucratice
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Parker: I would say that people whose careers are built in large corporate firms, which are fundamentally bureaucratic operations, these people become highly polished bureaucrats, they become hierarchy addicts. When they move into government, many of them, of course, don't simply serve the narrow interests of their former clients...
I was unable to persuade the President and his staff that this was so. On Dec. 29, the President announced a List of sanctions against the U.S.S.R. and suspended the issuance of licenses for "an expanded List of gas and oil equipment." An official of the Commerce Department went beyond...
I wish I could claim credit for this inspired gesture, which conveyed so aptly the change in American attitudes toward Moscow. The situation arose, however, not from geopolitical considerations but from bureaucratic pique. American ambassadors in Moscow had been kept in sterile isolation, and the Soviet desk of the department...
Few American public figures have had such tempestuous careers. Alexander M. Haig Jr. has spent much of his life in war zones?bureaucratic and geopolitical, as well as the kind for which he prepared in the U.S. Military Academy at West Point: Viet Nam, where he served as a battalion...
One cannot help but be excited by a man who challenged the seemingly unstoppable bureaucratic machine that was the Mondale candidacy and won. The party fashioned a delegate selection process that was supposed to snuff out underdogs like Hart. But the men in the back rooms made one mistake; the...