Word: bureaucratized
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...those who sought them, there were signs that Hiss was more than just a bright young bureaucrat. While working by day on Wall Street, he was active by night in the International Juridical Association, an alleged communist-front lawyers' organization. As early as 1942, the FBI received warnings that Hiss was probably a Soviet agent. The stories became so persistent that late in 1946 officials at State quietly arranged for him to assume the largely ceremonial presidency of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Hiss was serving as head of the Endowment on Aug. 3, 1948, when Whittaker Chambers...
...were made by default. When Will brought in press secretary Nelson Warfield, who had worked in Ron Lauder's unsuccessful 1989 New York City mayoral campaign, Dole met with him for all of seven minutes--and then pronounced him O.K. For campaign manager, Lacy selected Scott Reed, a cool bureaucrat who had no ties to Dole but who had run the Republican National Committee for Haley Barbour. Reed had to be persuaded that Dole would let the campaign manager actually manage the campaign. By the time Dole locked up the nomination, every member of the original family except...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I do not want some government bureaucrat determining that my Weather Service office will be closed. I want more protection than that...
...bureaucrats didn't invent beach volleyball, who did? i ask that question because ever since this summer's Republican National Convention I've been contemplating the moment when Newt Gingrich, in the course of introducing an Olympic volleyballer to the cheering delegates, said, "A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about...
...such initiatives from now until November--is that they are designed to cast the President in effect as the energetic young man standing in the rye, protecting our children from running over the cliff. It is a strategy designed to recast the image of government: instead of the supercilious bureaucrat with mountains of paper and regulations, government now becomes the safety-patrol volunteer, the lifeguard, the friendly cop on the beat buying a lost child an ice cream cone before calling his worried parents...