Word: technocrat
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...year-old Harvard-educated technocrat, who was responsible for implementing the unpopular austerity measures undertaken by the Madrid government during the last six years, has effectively argued that the country needs a smaller, less cumbersome bureaucracy, along with freer trade and increasing incentives for private industry. He has also called for further long-overdue reforms such as returning highly efficient state-run enterprises to private control and removing a wide range of consumer subsidies...
...lever for Bush. It has become almost routine for Republicans, and conservative ones at that, to crush Democrats in national elections. They have beaten a Southern neo-liberal in Jimmy Carter, they have defeated a traditional Midwestern liberal in Walter Mondale, and they have now crushed a Northeastern technocrat...
Granted, it will take a politician with rare courage to reach out and inspire these non-voters. It will take more than a boring technocrat, or a mean-spirited candidate who appeals to our cheapest instincts. It will take a principled and committed liberal strong enough to express his love for the people, and bold enough to challenge them...
Giamatti obviously means every word of this, but he is hardly the passive, pliable, accommodating technocrat that his self-description portrays. In truth, he has never abandoned teaching; he has moved his impressive pedagogical skills from the classroom into progressively larger arenas. Bart holds certain truths to be self-evident. Chief among these is his unfashionable conviction that individualism must cease when it threatens the legitimate, shared concerns of community. This belief is not a late-blooming flower of incipient dotage. As a fledgling professor during the 1960s, Giamatti bore the plumage of the counterculture. His clothes were rumpled...
...Dukakis, for example. The governor talks about the Massachusetts Miracle, his supporters chant "Duke, Duke, Duke," pundits mention the Greek heritage of passion that lurks--somewhere, maybe--in him. But none of this disguises the fact that Dukakis' image is BORING, that he is thought to be the ultimate technocrat, or that his speaking style is often wooden...