Word: bureaucratized
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...telemarketing job at SkyMall and getting his only thrills from ordering X-rated merchandise for oblivious customers, Gabe gladly springs back onto the rallying circuit. He begins merely by offering innovative protest ideas and typing posters, but he eventually gets sucked into helping kidnap the son of city bureaucrat Robert Barrone to protest cuts of service to low-income neighborhoods. Based on actual research done by Flood, who is a Crimson editor, on the squatters and drug epidemic in the 1970s and ’80s, the play gives an inside look at the grimier side of bureaucratic...
...South Korean democracy. Once known as a can-do Asian Tiger that had inspiringly shed authoritarian rule in the late 1980s, South Korea has now become the poster country for government dysfunction. Shortly before chairing his first Cabinet meeting Friday night, acting President Goh Kun, a respected career bureaucrat and former Seoul mayor, called the impeachment a "deplorable" incident, saying, "I cannot but feel sorry to the nation that the situation has reached the point it has." Goh called for calm, promising to maintain stability in government policy on important issues such as relations with the U.S. Foreign investors...
...extended his tour of duty on the condition he be given a frontline rifle company to lead. "I thought I was immortal," says Beers, now 61. He survived the experience and returned to Washington in the early 1970s to settle into a long, safe career as a national-security bureaucrat...
Campus Politico Steve Sheen ’05 is truly serving the pleasure of the body politic, or at least fifty percent of it. It seems that while Sheen might be a mild-mannered campus bureaucrat by day, he is indeed a promising leader of the student body by night, at least according to the half-dozen unsolicited appraisals of Sheen’s bed time performances that Gossip Guy has received from the highly satisfied women of Harvard, who are ever mindful of the power of positive reinforcement. How does he find the time...
What gay activists won't say is that in some ways it's better to be single. For instance, if a bureaucrat is determining whether you can get Medicaid, he is allowed to consider how much money your spouse makes. A gay man could get Medicaid--or a veteran's pension or a student loan or a crop-support payment--regardless of his partner's income. At the other end of the economic spectrum, the law prohibits Senators' spouses from accepting gifts worth more than $250 a year. But if, say, a Senator left his wife...