bureaucracy
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Colleagues describe him as a leader who cuts through bureaucracy and works well with engineers to meet deadlines.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
They are calling on the government to instead focus on pushing through deep reforms to areas like healthcare, pensions and bureaucracy that they argue can help spur growth in the long term.
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026
Each reason had its own departmental sponsor in Beijing’s bureaucracy, presumably without considering the view from Riyadh or Abu Dhabi.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
Retrieving them made him feel like a person again, but that was another kind of fight, with bureaucracy.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
C. J. Peters could swim through a bureaucracy like a shark.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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