bureaucracy
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Today he is helping Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought reshape the federal bureaucracy.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 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
The California Department of Motor Vehicles, long synonymous with slow lines and bureaucracy — immortalized by the sloths of the Department of Mammal Vehicles in Disney’s “Zootopia” — is expanding its digital services.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Fedorov also conducted a forensic analysis of procedures and practices in the ministry, aimed at reducing bureaucracy and improving efficiency.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
This was the first manifestation of what I came to learn was bedrock Jesse ideology: He distrusted almost all authority and bureaucracy.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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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
The organization runs different budgets for its regular operations and its more costly peacekeeping endeavors, while the specialized agencies handle their own money and bureaucracies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
But organized grassroots movements have the power to challenge these lethal bureaucracies, whether at home or abroad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
Committees and bureaucracies can limit AI, but they cannot create meaningful value.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 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
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