Word: bureaucratice
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Soviet energy policy has been plagued by bureaucratic infighting and indecisiveness. No fewer than 15 different government ministries are involved in energy policy. Indeed, it was not until late 1977 that the Communist Party authorized an all-out program for oil exploration and development, necessitating a rush of orders for...
The point is well taken. A Soviet survey showing that while women were spending hours in long shopping lines, arguing with bureaucratic clerks and doing household chores without the benefit of a bevy of modern appliances, husbands were lazily watching TV, reading newspapers, tippling with their cronies or otherwise being...
Why has she given up? Paperwork, the yanking of her favorite subjects (science and geography) from the curriculum, she answers. But as she talks, what emerges is a general hopelessness and resentment of a faceless bureaucratic system. On pressure to bring up test scores, for example, she says: "It doesn...
The Cubans are imprisoned in a bureaucratic snarl. The physical exams and interviews with immigration officials move quickly enough; it is the search for the U.S. residents required to sponsor the refugees that takes time. Those with relatives already in the U.S. stand the best chance of speedy discharge, but...
By June, despite a year-long series of bureaucratic moves, the Harvard-backed project was little closer to completion than it had been in September.