Word: bureaucratism
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...industry, agriculture, and defense. Under this great national enterprise, comparable perhaps to the building of the Great Wall or to the U.S. moon program, China expects to have 800,000 scientists and engineers by 1985, more than double the present number. Says Vice Premier Fang Yi, the shrewd bureaucrat who is China's minister of science: "It is not a loss of face to admit that China is backward compared with the West and Japan. But we are determined to close...
...party on the week-long trip. A small, balding and very nervous man has been handed the microphone--his voice is a mix of officious timidity. He's losing his audience. Content to find their own information, the crowd drifts away. The reporters gather around the monseigneur and the bureaucrat who are holding the seats for Pool Bus one. There is a friendly reminder that all pool reporters must share their information with each other. There are mild guffaws...
...ICBMs (Intercontinental Ballistic Missles), MIRVs (Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles) and MRVs (Multiple Re-entry Vehicles)--its understandable and helps the reader along. But when he talks about SNLVs (Strategic Nuclear Launch Vehicles), CBMs (Confidence Building Measures) and FRODs (Functionally Related Observable Differences), he sounds like just another professional bureaucrat. In his efforts to give us the inside story--replete with the lingo and a play-by-play of the seemingly endless rounds of negotiations--Talbott obscures his major themes...
Chrysler seemed to think it had the government coming and going. If the legislator or bureaucrat, ignorant of Chrysler's history, accepted the blame for Chrysler's failure, then it would seem that the government would have little choice but to bail the company out. If not, Chrysler points to the plants in your state that would shut down, citing the hundreds of thousands of workers who would be unemployed...
SURGE OF SERVICES They now account for 46% of G.N.P., up from 31% in 1950. It is harder to increase the productivity of a doctor, policeman, barber or bureaucrat than an assembly-line worker...