Word: bureaucratized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...think the Republican Party needs to fundamentally change what it stands for, but it needs to take those principles and apply them. For example, everybody should be able to afford high-quality health care, but we should want that to be between a patient and their doctor, not a bureaucrat...
...million for the Center for Grape Genetics ("quick peel me a grape"), $209,000 to improve blueberry production and efficiency in Georgia, $1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa. But those earmarks sound porky because they sound wasteful, not because they were earmarked; if a Department of Education bureaucrat had approved that $332,500 expenditure, it would still sound like a lot of money for a sidewalk. The pig odor would still stink if it wasn't technically "pork...
...occasionally rude. During the Asian crisis, he woke up his Japanese counterpart when he found out the Tokyo government was trying to arrange a bailout fund outside the purview of the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Treasury. "I thought you were my friend!" he told the startled Japanese bureaucrat. Summers was one of the most brilliant economists of his generation at Harvard, getting tenure at age 28 - the ultimate economic whiz...
What has kept the diaspora going on this grim cruise is the promise of President Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell), a bureaucrat who becomes leader after the government is vaporized and who believes she is a prophet destined to lead humankind home. What keeps the viewer going is the cat-and-mouse game with the Cylons, who can hide among and interbreed with humans. (The robots, at least, are sexy...
...leading contenders for the Treasury appointment—is now encountering opposition from some quarters. Contrary to an undeserved reputation stemming from misguided impressions and misleading media reports surrounding his resignation from Harvard’s presidency, Summers is anything but a misogynist or a calculating bureaucrat. He is, rather, a brilliant economist and an effective leader whose liberal credentials are beyond reproach. Summers would be an excellent choice for Secretary of the Treasury, and we are confident that Obama will give this accomplished economist a fair consideration that extends beyond the few isolated mistakes Summers has made during...