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It’s vital to understand that the agency’s sclerotic procedures and glacially slow decision-making resulted not from the rampant waste, fraud and abuse alleged by Trumpists but in order to avoid those evils.

God knows, having worked a whole career in government, I understood their critique of its baroque and sclerotic routines.

"Repression of social problems by governments allow bureaucracies to rot and become sclerotic as the social pressure builds to the point where bureaucracies are exploded."

It helped demolish billions in label revenue, forcing a sclerotic industry to re-assess its entire model.

“This United Nations system is today sclerotic and hobbled by hostile forces.”