Word: bureaucratism
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...been tried and executed for the murder of Ordzhonikidze, who in 1937 was said to have died naturally. Last week a seven-line paragraph on the back page of Pravda announced that Kruglov had been "released"' and would be replaced by Nikolai P. Dudorov, a little-known bureaucrat with Khrushchev connections...
...deterred later volunteers. Last month Khrushchev conceded that "some husbandries were set up in a hurry and were not quite successful," admitted that the area lacked rainfall, was scourged by early frosts, the soil was saline, and that on some farms one out of every three workers was a bureaucrat. But Khrushchev stuck doggedly to his old line that the state farm was the solution to Russia's agricultural problem...
...perhaps greater trouble for the top budgetmakers: the experts in the bureaus know so much more about the technical details than any Budget Director or President or Congressman can ever hope to know that the discussion of specific appropriations is always loaded in favor of the bureaucrats. Honestly and inevitably, each bureaucrat, convinced of the importance of his own work, tends to maximize his estimates. The advocacy representing the Government's parts is more powerful than that which speaks for the whole. That is one reason why many Government functions continue to grow and others hold their own even...
...giving to institutions of merit funds which will allow them to do what they want to do," Judge Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. '27, Foundation trustee and President of the Board of Overseers said yesterday, "not what some bureaucrat in a foundation or some board of trustees of a foundation assigns to them as tasks...
...your solution: Give all the power to one bureaucrat! Let him hire and fire at his pleasure and save governmental dignity ! The board is at least democratic. Why not advise alcoholics to switch to dope...