Word: bureaucratice
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HARVEY COX'S Seduction of the Spirit is properly not a book at all but a manifesto and a scattering of blueprints. Its thrust: Marx was only half-right. Religion is not always and everywhere or merely an opiate of the masses. Though it often serves as a "sedative administered...
Lagging Behind. The crux of Medvedev's argument is that in the long run "the basic impulses for democratization of the U.S.S.R. must emerge from Soviet society itself." The right kind of Russian leader, he implies, could marshal enormous support "from below" because of widespread discontent over "the slow...
The ambitious project had been stalled for a decade-until the developer, the U.S.'s Collins Tuttle & Co., in 1969 recognized that only a well-connected Frenchman could sweep away the bureaucratic snarls and inspire the confidence of timid French financiers. The firm took on Aaron, the president of...
Saundra Graham in her first term has shaken the city council from its normal stupor. Her impatient attitude toward bureaucratic red tape and her stubborn refusal to be satisfied with the status quo make her a very valuable councillor.
The independents, products of strong neighborhood clubs, rely heavily on the trust theme: Elect me and I'll do right by you. The reformers suggest they are cleaner than the older pols, if not less bureaucratic, promising an undefined openness and community participation in policy-making.