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Word: rumyantsev (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1985-1985
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...system overachieves in one notable undertaking: paperwork. Soviet Economist Alexei Rumyantsev, writing in the official trade-union newspaper Trud, estimated in 1983 that Soviet bureaucrats generated 800 billion documents a year. In addition, Rumyantsev noted that factories and offices were constantly being disrupted by inspections: he told of a machine-tool factory that had been visited 145 times in a single year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking on the Bureaucracy | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

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