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bureaucracy

[byoo-rok-ruh-see] / byʊˈrɒk rə si /


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“It was like urgency, urgency, urgency, and then bureaucracy, bureaucracy, bureaucracy,” Mr. Husted says.

From The Wall Street Journal

As with any bureaucracy, there is a great deal of inherited endeavor.

From The Wall Street Journal

Khamenei also built a powerful bureaucracy around his own office, with military and ideological lieutenants, and muscular economic foundations.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Every additional body that you throw at a problem adds more process, more bureaucracy, more politics, more inefficiency, more coordination.”

From The Wall Street Journal

That there was complacency and lack of focus in the bureaucracy is incontestable.

From Salon