Word: bureaucratized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ph.D. from the University of Texas and a nine-year bureaucrat, Boren is now head of an engineering and design firm but spends half his time lecturing, writing books and otherwise flourishing as "Founder, President and Chairperson of the Board of the International Association of Professional Bureaucrats (INATAPROBU)." He has an office in the National Press Building, a supply of wall-poster maxims ("Nothing is impossible until it is sent to a committee") and an estimated 970,38 enthusiastic members in 17,3 countries. They have dinners, annual meetings ("If you don't have anything...
...Boren's terms and analytical devices may be put to new use. "The measurement of the gestation period of an original thought in a bureaucracy is still pending," he points out. One Boren policymaking imperative could be established at places like the Brookings Institution. It goes: "When a bureaucrat makes a mistake and continues to make it, it usually becomes the new policy...
Like some Main Street version of Alec Guinness in a Midwest remake of The Captain's Paradise, the taciturn bureaucrat for years had secretly been supporting two separate families in two South Dakota towns some 200 miles apart: Pierre (pop. 10,300), where he maintained both a branch office and a modest house in a neat, middle-class neighborhood, and Sioux Falls (pop. 79,800), where he had his main office and a flat in an apartment complex known as the Tally...
...been spent. Baffled by the shortfall, Office of Management and Budget officials double-checked their figures and found that $2.5 billion of it was due mainly to accounting quirks That still left $9 billion in unused money and provided ammunition for Columnist Art Buchwald. Plotkin, his fictional, frazzled OMB bureaucrat, worries about how to get rid of the excess money and asks, "Have you ever tried to spend a billion dollars in two months...
...times. He opens one. "Congress shall make no law abridging..." Mohtz, a squat little man, gets excited. "That limitation's not on you, not on me, it's on Congress." He tells me of his campaign for Congress in 1974 when he ran under the slogan: "Get the bureaucrat's hands out of your pocket and nose out of your business." But that part of his life is all over. Now he helps run the United States Taxpayers Union and plans for a tax strike...