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bureaucracy
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  • You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.  (source)
    bureaucracies = complicated administrative systems
  • A crippling bureaucracy is a natural symptom of excessive government.
    bureaucracy = an excessively complicated or unresponsive administrative system
  • Christopher, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, was a poet, a philosopher, and a Unitarian minister, although he earned his keep as a bureaucrat in the California penal system.  (source)
    bureaucrat = worker in a large, complex organization
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  • The whole episode had been a matter of botched bureaucracy.†  (source)
  • The bureaucrat hands him another letter.  (source)
    bureaucrat = a nonelective government official
  • Valhalla, it is now What bureaucratic moron decided this was a suitable name for an old-age home?†  (source)
    bureaucratic = related to nonelective government officials or a complicated administrative system
  • The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians.  (source)
    bureaucrats = nonelected government officials -- especially clerks
  • It was difficult to find the right communication channels, and numerous bureaucracies required layers of formal paperwork.†  (source)
    bureaucracies = complicated administrative systems
  • Not as well and too bureaucratically.†  (source)
  • Damned bureaucracy is all it is.†  (source)
  • Or take that bureaucrat on the dais with his gavel.†  (source)
    bureaucrat = a nonelective government official
  • The notice had been generated as a bureaucratic matter of course, a designation made for all missing servicemen after thirteen months had passed.†  (source)
    bureaucratic = related to nonelective government officials or a complicated administrative system
  • But a committee of faceless bureaucrats back on Earth?†  (source)
    bureaucrats = nonelective government officials
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