bureaucracy
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Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt erected millions of square feet of unsightly buildings on the National Mall to house an expanded federal bureaucracy during the world wars.
From Slate • May 18, 2026
However, the incident prompted a backlash, becoming a rallying cry over L.A.’s burdensome filming bureaucracy.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026
During the Covid-19 pandemic, he corralled data from across the healthcare industry to build a real-time vaccine supply chain, racing to deliver before the bureaucracy reasserted itself.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Welsh Labour was focusing on using AI to cut bureaucracy in the public sector and building "digital infrastructure", pointing to the new "AI Growth Zones" in Wales to support wider uptake.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
For most of its existence a small and contained operation, the NACA’s flagship laboratory was now a many-layered bureaucracy flush with new faces.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Herbert Hoover on "Rugged Individualism" (1928)
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