Word: bureaucratice
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The task force presented what it called "random examples of bureaucratic absurdity" and noted how much could be saved over three years if the practices were stopped. Among them: the failure of the Government to negotiate discounts on freight charges with high-volume shippers ($530 million); spending by the Veterans...
TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark, who originated the idea of a cover story that would survey Africa a quarter-century after independence, has worked in the southern part of that continent for three years. He is not one of journalism's "old Africa hands," but he thinks he knows the...
The record of the past four years has been one of almost unremitting Soviet intransigence, intimidation and occasional doubledealing of the sort that so dramatically ruptured the relationship between the chief negotiators at the end. The U.S. stance was weakened by indecision, bureaucratic infighting, the clash of personalities and, possibly...
During the fall of 1981, bureaucratic alliances were formed for and against various features of the prospective proposal. Perle was determined that the Joint Chiefs of Staff should support the civilian leadership of the Pentagon on the zero-only option. When it looked as though the chiefs might side with...
Monolithic, centralized, impregnable and, above all, unshakably secure in its sense of direction and control. That is the image that the Soviet leadership has long tried to project to friends and foes alike. But suddenly last week, on the most grandiose of Soviet annual public occasions, there was a gaping...