bureaucracy
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The government says its changes will strip back bureaucracy and improve patient safety.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
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
Since the Inca bureaucracy was so strongly identified with its godlike absolute monarch, it disintegrated after Atahuallpa’s death.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
But Europe’s kings operated on fixed budgets and weak bureaucracies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 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
Party committees and bureaucracies can limit AI, but they cannot create meaningful value.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2025
His personal charisma and innovative strategies won many battles, but as early as the fall of 1965 Fuller had already realized the need for a new organization, one less hamstrung by federal and local bureaucracies.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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