Word: paperworks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reference to China or in our response to foreign crisis anywhere. We are institutionally set up in such a way that we up-play the short-term crisis decision, the command decision for meeting the emergency, and we down-play the long-term planning. In spite of all the paperwork that passes and all the contracts that are made with researchers and all the fads in various buildings, we don't have a long-term program which is a dominant guideline to what we do. This is a part of our being pragamtic, it is part of our being...
Speaking for three alarmed dissenters, Justice Tom Clark denounced the compromise on grounds that it weakens probable-cause standards and "degrades" the Fourth Amendment. Calling the decision an "absurdity," Clark envisioned magistrates rubber-stamping thousands of "area" warrants, deluging inspectors in paperwork-and allowing unscrupulous slumlords to delay repairs. Clark accused the court of "striking down hundreds of city ordinances throughout the country and jeopardizing thereby the health, welfare and safety of literally millions of people...
...College is not worried about the interim period. "The basic machinery of admissions is pretty much routinized now," Dean Monro said yesterday. He was confident that the admissions staff would complete the necessary recruiting tours and paperwork without a full-time dean in charge...
...this stage, the war calls less for bloodletting than for form filling. There are no battles but plenty of bumf-British army term for paperwork. Powell's people move through "the backwoods of this bureaucratic jungle," and it is a novelistic miracle that he keeps their old characters vivid and alive while they are being bored to death. If not bored, embarrassed. "Embarrassed" rather than "afraid" is the word one character finds for his feeling when his bathroom is bombed...
...state sales tax has saddled most college communities with a massive load of pointless paperwork; the result has been a time-consuming combination of confusion and inconvenience for administrators, students, and bookstores alike...