Word: nomenklatura
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...President to sign, it somehow got "lost" on the way. Now presidential staffers must be wondering what will happen to them if Gaidar and the government team should actually succeed. Petrov submitted his resignation, complaining about "unfounded accusations" that he and other members of the party's old nomenklatura were sabotaging the reforms. He also carped that a planned reorganization of the President's office would reduce his job to purely managerial functions. Yeltsin did not accept the resignation and told Petrov to stay...
When Rudenstine first began talking about creating the provost post, some feared that another administrator would add to what the Time article called "bureaucratic bloat: a selfperpetuating nomenklatura of assistant deans, development officers and other office-bound personnel...
...public that pays the bills, either by taxes, tuition or gifts. In Hiatt's view, "too many higher education institutions have been run like government, and that means they have been run badly." One inevitable consequence of imitating or emulating government has been bureaucratic bloat: a self-perpetuating nomenklatura of assistant deans, development officers and other office-bound personnel. "Harvard doesn't have a financial problem, it has a management problem," contends B.U.'s Silber...
...forces that have gnawed away the structure of the world she describes. At a high school reunion, a fat and happy apparatchik sweeps up in his limo to be greeted with cold shoulders instead of warm hugs as his former classmates berate him for the oppressive privileges of the nomenklatura. Another character believes ideological purity will win him a plum diplomatic appointment. He not only forbids his wife to subscribe to a literary magazine and crosses out all suspiciously surnamed acquaintances from his address book, but also finally smashes all jars of imported food in the house, even the Bulgarian...
...writes one commentator in the weekly Moscow News, Yeltsin has displayed "three souls": those of a populist, a democratic reformer and an elitist from the old nomenklatura of the Communist Party bureaucracy. The democratic reformer became the first popularly elected leader in Russian history in June; and the populist shortly after stood on a tank to defy the coup; but lately the elitist has been in evidence. Yeltsin has appointed namestniki -- in effect, governors -- to administer regions and localities in his name, under powers ceded him by the Russian parliament last August...