Word: bureaucratism
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...reason for the superconservative policy is that the Saudis acquired their oil wealth almost overnight-the megabucks started rolling in only after oil prices quintupled in 1973-74-and sometimes give the impression that they think it will not last. Finance Minister Mohamed Aboul-Kheil, a diminutive bureaucrat who talks as if Saudi Arabia were in need of foreign aid, argues that the surpluses will soon be eaten up by the costs of building an industrial society at home. Meanwhile, he insists, the country must keep its money in short-term investments so that it can bring it home...
...something of a problem bride-to-be in Agafya (Cara Duff-MacCormick). Agafya is a mer chant's daughter and a bit of a ninny. The three suitors Fiokla lines up are chauvinist piglets. Ivan Pavlovich Poach'tegg (Jon Cranney) is a blustery, pompous bureaucrat. Poach'tegg (sometimes translated Omelet) is only after Agafya's property, a two-story brick house, the walls of which he thumps to test their soundness. Zhevakin (Randall Duk Kim) is a diminutive ex-naval officer who dreams of duplicating the girls of Sicily with their "rosebud mouths" and cushiony flesh...
...type of cheap loans, repayable over 30 to 40 years at 2% to 4% interest, that Japan makes to developing countries as a form of foreign aid. The prospect of giving China such easy terms has alarmed many government officials. "It's foreign aid, pure and simple," said one bureaucrat, "and that's no way to finance a huge trade program with China...
...surprising choice was not universally hailed. Many Italians, particularly in the hierarchy, saw the loss of the papacy after 4½ centuries as a defeat and a reprimand. Noting that Wojtyla's predecessor was not a Vatican bureaucrat but a pastor (Archbishop and Primate of Venice), one Curia prelate said, "If the last conclave gave a flunking grade to the Curia, this one extended it to the whole Italian hierarchy." Onlookers thought that some Italian prelates looked downcast, even grim, when Wojtyla made his first appearance on the balcony of the basilica. And when Genoa's Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, the front...
...ironic choice. As chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, Kahn became famous for freeing airlines from burdensome federal regulation. As overseer of the guidelines, he would be in charge of much greater Government intervention in the private economy. But Kahn has built a towering reputation in Washington as a bureaucrat who gets things done. A vastly energetic but informal official who often pads about his office in stocking feet, Kahn is a trained economist who believes that the greatest challenge to his profession "is deciding not what the ultimate, economically rational equilibrium should look like, but what is economically rational...