bureaucracy

It included shrinking state-owned companies; cutting government bureaucracy; creating a private housing market; and rationalizing public finances in a way that allowed Beijing to function as a modern state.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Today he is helping Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought reshape the federal bureaucracy.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Hooks, who has led the center since 2010, said the project’s long timeline reflects more than bureaucracy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

However, those pros may be pretty modest when weighed against the costs, paperwork, bureaucracy, and ongoing management and review.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

To its critics, the World Health Organization was an entangled, muddled bureaucracy that had two mottoes: “Slow down” and “It’s not our fault.”

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Has the office served its purpose, or has it lingered one bureaucracy layered on top of a bunch of other bureaucracies, as some critics foresaw?

From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2026

But Europe’s kings operated on fixed budgets and weak bureaucracies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

Committees and bureaucracies can limit AI, but they cannot create meaningful value.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2025

Amid a broader slump in overall film and TV production, the city has long been bleeding production jobs to states and countries that offer generous tax incentives, cheaper labor and more filming-friendly bureaucracies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2025

Such bureaucracies were essential not only to governing large and populous domains but also to maintaining standing armies, sending out fleets of exploration, and organizing wars of conquest.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond