Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radical strengthening of the democratic process results. Scientists bear accountability for their own actions. They make the public decision process more explicit--and this is far more compatible with democratic theory than the incidents in American history when politicians' trails have lain hidden under mounds of bureaucratic red tape or trapped in the minds of silent government officials...
...Soviet government last March bought several hours of video tape from American networks in order to study the coverage of Richard Nixon's visit to Peking-and apparently did not like the view. According to a Soviet television official, the spectacle of Nixon and his Peking hosts at banquets and ballet performances looked "distasteful" to Moscow. Now in an apparent effort to upgrade the taste of summitry, the Soviets intend to limit the U.S. press to a contingent of about 100 journalists and severely curb TV coverage...
Finally, after three years of frustrating negotiations, Iowa Governor Robert Ray cut through the red tape by devising a neat bureaucratic stroke of his own. In his capacity as commander in chief of the Iowa National Guard, Ray ordered all of its 95 aircraft and 1,625 motor vehicles indefinitely immobilized except in the event of a national emergency. "I am not satisfied," he said, "that what has happened to the Tjernagels and the McCarvilles could not happen to other lowans...
...Nostra regards murder as an instrument of business-often conducted with a vengeance. The peculiar vogue that the Mafia is now enjoying in films and books may spring from a kind of stylish atavism that Americans recognize in a brute feudal system that allows swift retribution with no red tape. In part, it simply appeals to the antibureaucratic impulse, the secret instinct that things can be "fixed," even in satisfyingly violent ways. For the moment, many still find the Mob romantically sinister and enterprising, but the popular infatuation may fade now that the bodies are real...
...other Western sources. Similarly, it is self-defeating for U.S. businessmen to be forced to fill out reams of questionnaires and licensing applications for trade with Russia when such delays result in lost sales. Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing was a recent victim of U.S. bureaucracy. Though it developed magnetic tape, it lost a substantial sale to the Russians because its export license remained mired for so long in Washington offices that the Soviets took their business to 3M's imitators in Western Europe...