Word: bureaucratice
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Confucianism consisted of rule by a scholar elite steeped in the great ethical classics of Chinese antiquity. By the 8th century a complex system of civil service examinations, based on literary and ethical knowledge, had become the principal route to bureaucratic advancement. The scholarly ruling class jealously guarded its monopoly...
So in September 1973, the bureaucratic wheels began to turn. Robert E. Kaufmann '62, director of finance for Dean Rosovsky, sent Watson a memorandum directing him to work for "equal access and opportunity at all levels of athletic endeavor to undergraduate men and women," and asking for a report on...
As part of the merger agreement, the memorandum continued, Robert B. Watson '37, director of Athletics, gained control over budgeting and policymaking for Radcliffe's program, and Paget, then in her twelfth year as director of Radcliffe's Sports, Dance and Recreation Department, became a member of Watson's staff...
Few men in American public life have sought the presidency with more fervor than Nelson Rockefeller. "When you think of all I had," he once explained, "what else was there to aspire to?" Nothing would divert him from his ambition, least of all the vice presidency, which he twice spurned...
By then the scientists had, in effect, been overruled by a bureaucratic device. FDA referred the question of cyclamate safety to the National Academy of Sciences and its working arm, the National Research Council. The prestige of these bodies gives a false aura of objectivity to their findings, says Verrett...