Word: bureaucratice
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Most of the world's governments are becoming increasingly bureaucratic and secretive. A case in point is the Pentagon's passion for classifying every document in sight. If those SECRET stamps were used less frequently, spies would be a lot less busy trying to grab often totally unimportant material.
Bureaucratic Mercy. Editors are concerned at this possibility and so is the U.S. Senate's leading libertarian, Sam Ervin Jr. of North Carolina (TIME, March 8). A Southern conservative politically, Ervin has made a personal crusade of defending individual freedoms from Government encroachment. Last week, in the first of...
Probably the Administration hopes to restore broken bonds with the universities: maybe it thinks it can convert some of its critics and please its supporters by allowing them a token role in policy formation. Some of these reports are undoubtedly bureaucratic waste destined to line file cabinets. The Columbia study...
The city, which had estimated it would cost $12,500 to construct a park by normal means, refused to pay; the department of public works, in a spasm of bureaucratic anger, announced that Sweat would be billed for the cost of restoring "said site to its former condition"-meaning, presumably...
The immediate effect was a wave of destalinization that shook Eastern Europe and resulted in the Poznan riots in Poland and the Hungarian uprising. It set the stage for Czechoslovakia's experiment in "Communism with a human face"-which was also ended by Soviet intervention. By trying to loosen...