Word: bureaucratized
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...long been celebrated by Church conservatives as the architect of Pope John Paul II's doctrinal policy and vilified by progressives as the panzerkardinal who defended Catholic orthodoxy with the impenetrability of a tank. Yet Ratzinger's quotidian reality was essentially that of an exalted Catholic Church bureaucrat. Working the day shift at Church headquarters for 23 years meant studying and safeguarding the Gospels, not preaching it. On March 31, Ratzinger was in his Vatican office when the phone rang with bad news. John Paul's long and brave battle with failing health looked to be nearing...
...when truck drivers, factory hands and bakers are in a skirmish with their circadian rhythms, the 56-year-old cotton farmer from Moree, in northern New South Wales, is in bed whirling his mind through a problem. Estens might be crafting a game plan to outwit a Canberra bureaucrat or thinking of a way to motivate a juvenile criminal offender; he might be trying to understand the power structure in a small town or finessing a schmooze assault on a CEO target. This social entrepreneur finds the wee, small hours a bountiful period for clarifying ideas about his self-appointed...
...time the Dubbo meeting is over, Estens has generated a flurry of phone calls, report-backs and a soiree with a senior bureaucrat. It's been fruitful and a jolly party compared with some meetings Estens has had with public servants. "Like Colin Powell in the first Gulf War, I've threatened to use overwhelming force on some departments," says Estens. "Bureaucrats have trouble understanding my psychological game plan." To Estens' mind, the AES is "best practice indigenous employment policy" that politicians support - but which baldly reveals the failings of bureaucrats. He's scathing about the good-hearted, impotent officials...
...play is comprised of three parts. In the first, the old primary communist leaders debate the future of Russia and the world while waiting for a speech to take place. In the second, a bureaucrat attempts to seduce Kat (Catrin M. Lloyd Bollard ’08), the guard at a bizarre storage facility for brains of important Party members, as they discuss the future of Russia and the world. He is rebuffed when her female lover, B (E.A. “Zia” Okocha ’08), shows up. The couple discusses sex, vodka and the future...
...Then a representative of the Carlyle Group, the global investment behemoth, anchored next to them. "It kept getting crazier and crazier," says Baer. "You could see Gaghan beginning to frame a picture." Part of the insanity was the disconnect between Baer and his old associates. "I'm an ex-bureaucrat," says Baer. "I have no money. I got a $70,000 advance for my book--which in their world is a three-day trip to New York. I think Gaghan saw the tension there...