Word: bureaucratice
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GOVERNMENT AGENCIES assigned a particular task often pursue it with a single-mindedness, an inertia, that precludes any kind of dissent. In his new book. The Cult of the Atom, Daniel Ford shows that this bureaucratic blindness is now here more apparent than in the case of the Atomic Energy...
In the early 1970's, the Commission began to meet with a great deal of opposition from environmental and public interest organizations and it responded with a series of hearings and studies to confirm the safety and potential of nuclear power. Yet Ford clearly shows that the outcome of these...
What lay behind Korniyenko's initial outburst? Soviet officials explained, with some embarrassment, that Korniyenko had simply been spouting on his own. Said a Soviet journalist: "It was a bureaucratic screw-up." Perhaps. Although Soviet trade officials were taking the American businessmen aside last week and telling them to...
The son of a Russian metalworker, Brezhnev was born in the Ukrainian industrial town of Kamenskoye (now known as Dneprodzerzhinsk). His father may have taken part in strikes that accompanied the 1905 revolution against Tsar Nicholas II's rule. Brezhnev was ten years old at the time of the...
Kirkland House will take on South and Winthrop will face Eliot in today's intramural football playoffs, but only after a last-minute bureaucratic reshuffling at Athletic department headquarters.