bureaucratic

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To promote international peace, he knocked down bureaucratic hurdles and cooled cultural clashes to herd a team of Russian, Chinese and American climbers to the summit of Everest in 1990.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

The status quo was saddling administrators with long hours without extra pay amid increasing bureaucratic compliance demands as well as heightened pressure to raise test scores.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

He has staked his leadership on aggressive reforms that aim to deliver double-digit growth, slashing bureaucratic red tape, empowering the private sector and channelling vast resources into mega-projects.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

We’re talking about an enormous bureaucratic organization with 2,000 years of weird and troubled history, whose massive internal contradictions and bitter factional disputes are only partly visible to outsiders.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Round face and hairless, smooth features; like a clerk in a bureaucratic office.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick