Word: bureaucratism
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More out of stubbornness than nobility, March plugs on with his inconvenient questions. At first it seems that the dead man, a bureaucrat named Buhler, was merely involved in a scheme to get rich selling artwork confiscated from Jews. This would not be a major offense, because it is known that during the war, all Jews were evacuated to the east somewhere -- March isn't clear on the details -- and never came back...
...this happen and get him out of the company!' " Though the principal question was whether EDS or Bradford had submitted the lower bid, Perot and his aides dug up and deluged the state with an enormous amount of negative information about Bradford and Arnold Ashburn, the Texas bureaucrat who awarded the contract. The state eventually gave the contract back to EDS but absolved Bradford of any wrongdoing and paid it $3.1 million to walk quietly away...
...least, concerns about bureaucratic bloat seem unwarranted. When Green moves into Mass Hall for good, Harvard deans and faculty will likely see not another bureaucrat, but an academic chosen to redirect his scholarly skills to help run the institution where he was once a teaching professor...
...want to be a politician or a powerful bureaucrat, become Japanese," Matsuyama said. "The Japanese are obedient and a cinch to deal with...
Brave words from a bureaucrat with limited power. Although the FDA is entrusted with guaranteeing the safety of all medical drugs and devices in the U.S., it is poorly armed for the job. For example, unlike almost every other federal agency, the FDA lacks the legal clout to subpoena a company's internal records if a problem is suspected. Congress woke up to the problem last fall, at Kessler's prodding, and introduced a bill that would have enabled the ( agency to seize corporate documents. The threat of a presidential veto halted the measure, though the new revelations about Halcion...