bureaucratic

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To promote international peace, he knocked down bureaucratic hurdles and cooled cultural clashes to herd a team of Russian, Chinese and American climbers to the summit of Everest in 1990.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Recalling the day in a recent interview with The Times, Cook quickly turns indignant about the bureaucratic odyssey that yellow slip launched.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

We’re talking about an enormous bureaucratic organization with 2,000 years of weird and troubled history, whose massive internal contradictions and bitter factional disputes are only partly visible to outsiders.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

In an earlier post, he blamed "bureaucratic problems" for holding up his plans to modernise the armed forces' equipment and their aircraft.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

“It is,” said Henry, “but we can’t do that. Too much red tape. The eyases would be grandparents by the time we got through all the bureaucratic loops.”

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George