Word: bureaucratizing
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Kentridge has borrowed from the imagery of that avant-garde, the ecstatic and utopian imagery of Vladimir Tatlin and Kazimir Malevich, for a production of The Nose--Shostakovich's 1930 opera based on the Gogol story about a Russian bureaucrat who awakens one morning to discover that his nose has left his body and begun to pursue its own career up the social hierarchy--that the Metropolitan Opera in New York City will mount next year. The San Francisco show, which was organized by Mark Rosenthal, a curator at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla., climaxes...
...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...
...considered a Raulista, Rodriguez remains a relatively unknown entity in the Castro hierarchy. As experts like Mora point out, it's too soon to tell if Raúl chose Rodriguez with a proactive U.S.-Cuba mission in mind or simply to have a professional but nondescript bureaucrat warm the Foreign Minster's seat. Raúl already consults a small core of foreign policy veterans on U.S. policy, including Jorge Bolaños, Cuba's de facto ambassador in Washington, and Fernando Remírez de Estenoz, one of Cuba's most respected diplomats and the foreign relations point...
...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...