Word: bureaucratized
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...charge, President Bush can forget about privatizing Social Security." Andrew Biggs Two days after the midterms, Bush nominated Biggs for deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration. As a think-tank scholar, he pushed hard for private accounts. He kept mum as a lower-level Social Security bureaucrat, but Biggs' promotion sends a clear signal that Administration officials might not be as flexible as they are saying...
...surging political power of India's lower castes, the rise and (apparent) decline of Hindu nationalism and the decline and (apparent) resurgence of the Gandhi-Nehru dynasty. Luce also takes a stab at explaining the big regional differences in economic development within India. For example, a senior bureaucrat in the southern state of Tamil Nadu candidly tells Luce that about 30% of public funds meant for promoting literacy, roads and electrification in his state are "diverted"?embezzled by bureaucrats?versus 70% in the north. The result: half of Tamil Nadu now lives in cities, where the standard of living tends...
...aftermath of a young couple’s assassination in this way: “So the National Park Service concluded that a deranged shooter had picked a target at random…People who used the path were urged to be cautious.” Only a government bureaucrat would consider this gripping...
...DIED. Choi Kyu Hah, 87, former Prime Minister of South Korea who served briefly as the country's 10th President following the 1979 assassination of Park Chung Hee; in Seoul. After replacing the dictatorial Park, Choi, a former professor and long-serving bureaucrat, released opposition leaders from prison and promised elections and a new constitution. But his moderate reforms were cut short after a cabal of generals seized power later that year, leaving Choi President in name only. He resigned in 1980 in the wake of the Kwangju massacre, in which over 200 pro-democracy activists were killed...
Occasionally, critics have characterized Ban as a detail-oriented bureaucrat, lacking in vision or forcefulness, according to the Times of London...