Word: bureaucratized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...middle-class tax cuts and a free-market-friendly approach to public policy. The government doesn't "spend" tax money in the New Democrats' lexicon. It "invests" in the future. And like Obama, Clinton saw another version of himself painted by the opposition: a pot-smoking, war-protesting, bureaucrat-loving, income-redistributing radical...
...supposed to make sure that justice is being done and people's rights are being looked after. When you are sitting there witnessing horribly unjust things occuring, I could just be the typical bureaucrat who falls back on, "Hey, I'm just following the law." But that's wrong, it's plain-old wrong, call it what you want. Last I checked our constitution, people are allowed due process rights before property is taken away from them. The people I'm talking about now have no idea they're even the subject of a lawsuit. And somehow, that is justice...
...partners like the brilliant and charming seventh-grade dropout from Brooklyn, Sidney Weinberg (a.k.a. "Mr. Wall Street"); the worldly, turbocharged Gus Levy; and John Whitehead, whose prescience helped shape the firm into a master of the financial universe in the 1980s. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, now a flummoxed bureaucrat in the hot seat, also ran the show after forcing out Jon Corzine...
Pakistan may currently enjoy what seems to be a healthy if noisy democracy, but the office of army chief remains the most powerful one in the country - certainly exceeding the effective control of any politician or civilian bureaucrat. And now Pakistan's army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, is showing that he is truly in charge of the military - and hence the most powerful man in the country...
...concept of service. What is the sharp distinction between jobs that are traditionally considered service, such as being a soldier, and jobs that are not, such as being a shop clerk? If that seems too clear, what about being a firefighter, police officer, doctor, sanitary worker, or bureaucrat? Without an understanding of which jobs, when paid for, still constitute service, a vision of universal service is equivalent to a new federal work program...