Word: bureaucratized
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...parallel claim was made by Robert Bloom, now Deputy Comptroller of the Currency and a career bureaucrat who was acting comptroller when Lance's nomination was approved by the Senate. Appearing before a House banking subcommittee, Bloom fielded a barrage of questions about why he had not alerted Congress to Lance's banking practices...
Henry Kissinger considers himself decompressed from his days of helping run the world. But just another retired bureaucrat he is not. His extraordinary achievements as Secretary of State, the friends he made in the power fraternity, have given him a postgraduate status among diplomats that has never existed before. Germany's Helmut Schmidt breakfasted secretly with Kissinger at a British resort in April. Britain's James Callaghan and France's Valery Giscard d'Estaing both invited him to dinner when they learned that Henry was coming to their respective countries. Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin asks...
...that Teng consistently advocated. Hua apparently now hopes to exploit Teng's administrative skills and his program for the modernization of China, while avoiding the appearance of assailing the memory of the revered Mao. This may require a Chinese conjuring trick, considering Teng's reputation as a bureaucrat who gave little more than lip service to some of the Chairman's most cherished ideals...
Pardon Mon Affaire is one of those sex farces that the French seem to be able to whip up like croissants - airy, pleasant and a little flaky. Because it is something of a standard product, it is also rather predictable. When a married bureaucrat (Jean Rochefort) conceives a passion for a flashy Paris model (Anny Duperey), we have no doubt that he is going to bed her in the final reel - after first undergoing a series of ritual humiliations befitting a middle-aged fool who tries to play the swinger...
...Lincoln Center four years ago, Producer Joseph Papp promised the equivalent of a New Deal for drama in New York City. Last week, in a more somber mood, Papp, 55, announced he was quitting the center to concentrate on his experimental theaters in Lower Manhattan. In language that a bureaucrat might envy, he described his move as a "strategic withdrawal forward...