Word: bureaucratism
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...pushed a reorganization plan, which eventually trimmed agencies so heavily that an occasional bureaucrat would try to barricade himself inside his office. By the time his four-year term had ended, he had reduced the agencies to a more manageable 22. That did not mean that all the agencies disappeared; many of them were simply grouped in a single department with no loss of staff. Carter also introduced "zero-based budgeting." Every state department had to justify its entire budget request, and not just the increase over the year before. The new system is still being tested...
...Horrock, who covers national intelligence agencies for the New York Times. Horrock reports that one intelligence source has already called him to say that "he was getting uncomfortable" because of the Ford proposals. Adds Washington Star Reporter Norman Kempster: "It will take an act of extreme heroism for a bureaucrat to blow the whistle on wrongdoing...
...balance sheets. There was a kind of boardroom eloquence about the President in this environment, moving from table to chart, talking of dollars and sense. Even those who disagree philosophically with Ford admitted that he had done a masterly job of presenting his case. One old budget bureaucrat who has seen Presidents come and go said, "God, but he is good at this...
...carry out the defendant's authority." This provision would have allowed the Watergate conspirators to claim they were just following orders. S.1 would let them out of jail. And in what may become the government's most effective weapon to keep the public uninformed, the bill would allow a bureaucrat at almost any level of government to classify material only vaguely related to national security...
...their first day here that Harvard is not a friendly, collegial institution; it is a corporation that must have its bills paid. You may be a Harvard National Scholar--one of the top ten admissions choices--or a member of the Rockefeller family, but you'll still face the bureaucrat telling you that until your check is received, you can't start school...