Word: bureaucratism
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...such clear and forthright delineations of the problems facing modern universities that Bok's outstanding qualities as an administrator come through. Unlike many in his position, he is neither a nearsighted bureaucrat nor a self-important fulminator. Rather, he proves himself once again as a remarkably incisive social scientist, separating one by one the strands of an intricate web of forces affecting higher education...
...though an IRS "grievance examiner" supported the whistle blowers in 1987 and urged action against their oppressors, many of the service's highest officials refused to comply. For four months the examiner's report sat on the desk of IRS deputy commissioner Michael Murphy, the agency's most powerful bureaucrat. Jech eventually moved to a higher IRS post, while Santella was allowed to retire quietly. (He is now a top official at the federal Railroad Retirement Board, where he helps oversee a $7 billion benefits program...
...Indian blood." When he played with white boys, it was because he owned the ball and bat. When he studied theology, it was not with Southern Baptists but with white Congregationalists in Connecticut. Baffled in his attempt to become a missionary to Africa, he became a New York bureaucrat in the National Council of Churches. Returning to the South in the late '50s, it was with Marshall Field Foundation money to start literacy programs for blacks...
...Many of them are eager to expand. West German suppliers, keen to see a viable network of small retailers, are advancing goods on credit and helping in other ways like donating old cash registers and display cases. The threat to the independent East German retailer is no longer the bureaucrat but the competing capitalist...
Political instability at home has undermined the yen as well. Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, 59, who is outside the Old Guard of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, lacks the political support to serve as a bold leader. "That poor gentleman," says one Japanese bureaucrat. "They are all trying to sink him. He gets no help." While Kaifu is moderately popular, he ! is not seen as someone who can dramatically improve relations with the U.S. or boost Japan's influence in the world. Says a disappointed financier: "Japan has not emerged as the superpower that it was expected...