| 单词 | bureaucrat |
| 例句 | Travel permits were usually issued for work-related reasons or for a family event that could be confirmed by bureaucrats, such as a wedding or a funeral. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z One goal, of course, is the obvious one of “pacifying” the nomads: that is, dissuading them from killing missionaries, bureaucrats, or each other. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I might’ve handled the clerk with a softer touch, but Emma had no patience for the self-important authority of petty bureaucrats. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I’d been in the same room with the ambassador every minute that he was in our house, and besides, that overstuffed, freeloading bureaucrat was too self-involved to ever commit murder. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z For instance, there is no hint that Linear B was used or understood by any Mycenaean Greek beyond small cadres of palace bureaucrats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Since as hunter-gatherers they did not produce crop surpluses available for redistribution or storage, they could not support and feed nonhunting craft specialists, armies, bureaucrats, and chiefs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And while presidents came and went, this bureaucrat, now thick around the waist and with jowls like a bulldog, remained. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Instead, the first Sumerian texts are emotionless accounts of palace and temple bureaucrats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But a committee of faceless bureaucrats back on Earth? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “The designers of the hotel figured we only needed electricity for that and the stoves. Cursed bureaucrats!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Jim Kim had the finesse and diplomatic skills to deal with bureaucrats and large organizations such as WHO and the World Bank. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z A stored food surplus built up by taxation can support other full-time specialists besides kings and bureaucrats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Most Eurasian states had literate bureaucracies, and in some a significant fraction of the populace other than bureaucrats was also literate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The bureaucrats were not intending to create writing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Alex continued with his attack, not just on members of the World Bank but on the World Health Organization bureaucrats stationed in Moscow, who he said resented PIH and the Soros Foundation. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The bureaucrats assured them that Bacon Street was just one of three such projects planned for their city—the other two of which would be built in predominantly white neighborhoods. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Peregrine falcons—two of the mere thirty-four in the entire state— and the bureaucrats won’t stop this work for them.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z State bureaucrats are not selected mainly on the basis of kinship, as in chiefdoms, but are professionals selected at least partly on the basis of training and ability. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The chief’s orders might be transmitted through one or two levels of bureaucrats, many of whom were themselves low-ranked chiefs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Exclusion Authority bureaucrats mill around on their phones amid a heavy presence of armed Exclusion Guards. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z After the missionaries come teachers and doctors, bureaucrats and soldiers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The chief’s hut looked like any other hut, there were no bureaucrats or public works, the chief redistributed most goods he received back to the commoners, and land was controlled by the community. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, well, we’re the ones most likely to die from hunger and thirst, not the guards or any of those fascist bureaucrats in the Hub. And definitely not the president,” Soheil says. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z All the members of chiefly lineages, bureaucrats, and some craft specialists were freed from the work of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Bloom wasn’t just a terrorizing demon; he was also a bureaucrat at the mercy of paperwork. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With the rise of dense, sedentary, food-producing populations came the rise of chiefs, kings, and bureaucrats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They serve as a kind of packing material in which academics, bureaucrats, and corporate mouthpieces clad their subject matter. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Hunter-gatherer societies tend to be relatively egalitarian, to lack full-time bureaucrats and hereditary chiefs, and to have small-scale political organization at the level of the band or tribe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He had trimmed his beautiful beard and was dressed in a bureaucrat’s gray suit and a faded tie of the same color. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember glimpsing a big bureaucrat whose face filled one of the windowpanes and thinking, Maybe he ought to come in here and try it himself. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “That had better be my Annushka and not some horrible bureaucrat!” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z So far, no brat or bureaucrat had ever been able to outsmart her. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Along with the proliferation of vertical levels of bureaucrats, there is also horizontal specialization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Was he simply being a bureaucrat who didn't like the fact that a name had been crossed out without his official permission? The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Marveling at Ann’s vast knowledge of federal housing laws, a HUD consultant admitted that “she knows more than most bureaucrats in Washington.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Also, he said, some of the local WHO bureaucrats were Polish, not Russian, and between the two nationalities old hatreds still endured. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Christopher, a graduate ,of Harvard Divinity School, was a poet, a philosopher, and a Unitarian minister, although he earned his keep as a bureaucrat in the California penal system. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some civilian observers, maybe bureaucrats from the Department, stood by as several of us fired grenades onto the range using the gas gun. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The mistake horrified the antipoverty bureaucrats who shortly after arranged to have her returned to her previous position. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z However, in contrast to state bureaucrats, chiefdom bureaucrats had generalized rather than specialized roles. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The experience cut him deeply, in particular the fact his competence lay exposed to the review of a bureaucrat over whom he had no influence. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Two types of such specialists are kings and bureaucrats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Larger ones tended to have more powerful chiefs, more ranks of chiefly lineages, greater distinctions between chiefs and commoners, more retention of tribute by the chiefs, more layers of bureaucrats, and grander public architecture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He had fought for South Africa during World War II in North Africa and Italy, but after his return, a white bureaucrat had reclassified him as African. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I realized how many men had died because those pages had been stamped top secret and because generations of bureaucrats like me kept them secret,” Ellsberg said. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Only bureaucrats, TV executives and editors believe "the arts" exist as a corporate category, an interest group. Don't vote for "arts" policy in the 2010 general election 2010-04-06T12:17:00Z His artistry is of no use in a world of soulless bureaucrats. DVD: A Version of Gogol?s Short Story ?The Overcoat? on DVD 2012-01-13T18:02:55Z In this film, he goes to war with Scorpio, a shaggy serial killer, bureaucrats and due process. What’s on TV Wednesday: Fireworks and ‘Captain America’ 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z The exhausted pilots are hounded by ankle-biting bureaucrats, and presented with incriminating simulations that show test pilots easily making runway landings. Sullied: with Sully, Clint Eastwood is weaponizing a hero 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z But as is so often the case on “Game of Thrones,” warriors are revealed to be lousy bureaucrats, and vice versa. 'Game of Thrones' Recap: The Battle at Castle Black 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z This small army of bureaucrats was divided into 19 different layers, from the permanent secretary at the top, down to the typists. Is everything you think you know about depression wrong? 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z The Oscar-nominated actor gets to try on various disguises, among them a doltish bureaucrat and a darkish variation on the wizard of Oz. ‘The Signal’: Twisty sci-fi thriller heads down a spooky road 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The Gogol story is a bizarre tale of a petty bureaucrat who is swept along in the officious chaos, class conflicts and absurdity of St. Petersburg society. ?The Nose,? and the Eye and the Ear, at Metropolitan Opera 2010-03-11T19:52:00Z At the beginning of the article, I quoted a high-level bureaucrat as writing: “We will do everything we can to promote ‘smart cities’ and build a sustainable, low-carbon society in the region.” Can we build a sustainable Japan? 2013-03-12T18:50:00Z “I just don’t think about it,” the bureaucrat says, asked what he gets from surrounding himself with such works, given that no one will live to see them. What Can We Learn From the Art of Pandemics Past? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z The film’s central crime is the robbery of a bank branch by a gang of small-timers, and most of the cops are beleaguered, cynical bureaucrats. Movie Review: Claude Sautet’s ‘Max et les Ferrailleurs’ 2012-08-10T04:20:08Z Carlson, for his part, complained that the “outcome of our presidential election was seized from the hands of voters” and given over to “clearly corrupted city bureaucrats.” Perspective | Fox News is pulling out all the stops to promote Trump’s twisted logic about ‘corrupt’ voting 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z The bureaucrat basks in his power, refusing compassionate leave to an underpaid young worker facing an emergency. Shirley Hazzard, Novelist Who Charted Storm-Tossed Lives, Dies at 85 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z One Howard Silk, a meek career bureaucrat who visits his comatose wife every night in the hospital, has “kind eyes,” according to a nurse. Review: ‘Counterpart’ Gives Us J.K. Simmons, Times Two 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z "You've got some bureaucrats who want us gone," Cook told me. Navy Pier shuts down white tigers 2012-01-25T03:52:00Z A bureaucrat fights to get a fallen war hero the Medal of Honor in “The Last Full Measure,” a drama written and directed by Todd Robinson. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Amadeus’ and ‘The Last Full Measure’ 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Undermined by bureaucrats, made ill by eating rancid elephant meat and attacked by armies of ants, Shaffer declined O'Hanlon's invitation to accompany him on the journey's final leg. Redmond O'Hanlon: A life in books 2011-03-28T06:59:01Z Certain ex-soldiers became bureaucrats; others roamed the land seeking work as security guards for hire. Art Review: ‘Samurai!’ at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2013-05-02T21:35:50Z Washington bureaucrats make it impossible for states to improve the situation, as Illinois showed us in 2011. A Look Back at Year One of The Apothecary at Forbes 2012-01-31T17:22:00Z The airlines and the supposedly neutral bureaucrats of the TSA don’t even pretend that our society is not divided into economic castes. The New Gilded Age: A bigger con job than the first one 2014-04-26T16:30:00Z Viewed one way, almost everything shown before and after the violence constitutes the bleakest of bleak comedies, as bureaucrats try to square the emergence of a strike with the state’s narrative of socialist prosperity. ‘Dear Comrades!’ Review: When the Party Line Becomes a Tightrope 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Far fewer people are dying so vacationers in Las Vegas and affluent businessmen and bureaucrats in China can gorge themselves on what appear to be overgrown spiders. “Deadliest catch”? Not even in the top three 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The show begins with a single man, a beaten-down bureaucrat in business drab, stamping papers at a desk before giant projections of rotating industrial cogs, à la “Metropolis.” | A Goofy Display of Acrobatics, Juggling and Hula Hooping 2013-12-19T22:50:28Z Deployed to the fringes of an empire, they deal with unreliable local allies, irascible tribesmen and airy bureaucrats in a faraway capital. The Life of a Soldier 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Some art historians have taken extraordinary measures to work around the French system, where descendants complain that they remain at the mercy of bureaucrats who can unilaterally decide whether to allow access or not. Despite Pledge, France Lags in Hunt for Looted Art 2013-08-28T22:15:50Z “Not the bureaucrats, but the man in the street.” Former anti-drug activists reflect on marijuana legalization 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z It seems that this bureaucrat's job now is to stick to the earlier fake story that carbon monoxide poisoning caused the deaths, with the finger of blame pointed at the airline and its now-dead CEO. 'The Strain': Extermination is on tap in 'It's not for everybody' 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z The 36-year-old grew up in Bristol, Conn., the son of two longtime bureaucrats. The Quitters Club: “Let’s Give Up on Our Dreams . . . Together!” 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z And he put the future of Medicare in the hands of 15 unelected bureaucrats. Mitt Romney's Vaguely Promising Plan for Entitlement Reform 2011-11-05T19:41:51Z Vulnerable yet adamant, Philippa bulldozes bureaucrats and scientists into supporting her plan to excavate the parking lot where she believes the King is buried. ‘The Lost King’ Review: A Royal Obsession 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z In Pakistan a coterie of bureaucrats was tasked with "de-Hinduising" the culture. Mehdi Hassan's songs live on as Pakistan and India unite in mourning 2012-06-14T12:47:46Z It was constructed at the turn of the century and soon seized by the communists to house bureaucrats and impress foreign guests. ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ is a charming reminder of what it means to be classy 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z The villains here are sincere, hard-working bureaucrats, and their victims are frequently confused or duplicitous. New Directors/New Films Festival Opens With Bold Strokes 2014-03-18T21:30:55Z They would be reflections from bureaucrats and wage slaves, from stay-at-home moms and retired managers, from middle school kids and people who are illiterate. “Comment sections are brilliant and extremely relevant”: Christy Wampole on the awfulness of Facebook, the utility of “think pieces” and why you might be reading the Internet all wrong 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z “With city bureaucrats, our initial response to anything is skepticism, because part of our job is to make sure things don’t happen that are dangerous to the public,” said Adrian Benepe, the parks commissioner. In Columbus Circle, Tatzu Nishi to Build Living Room 2012-08-12T18:27:37Z Gică Enache, who passed away a few months ago, considered himself a protector of the lands and an expert in the area and was already working with the scientists and bureaucrats. A family on the edge of society in ‘Acasa, My Home’ 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Actually Eichmann was a thug as well as a bureaucrat, who screamed at Jews: "Pig, stand against the wall when you address me." Moral Combat: A History of World?War II by Michael Burleigh 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z But the bureaucrats and drug companies currently in control will fight to keep the status quo. Should the FDA Approve More Drugs after Phase II? A Response to Matthew Herper 2012-05-04T14:25:06Z “What you are saying is nobody may speak, nobody may question,” she hisses at an opaquely polite bureaucrat. Review: In David Hare’s ‘Plenty,’ Time Takes the Edge Off a Femme Fatale 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z But every time a bureaucrat changes, the policy changes. Haile Gerima Is Having a Hollywood Moment. It’s Left Him Conflicted. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z For a long time, tactical urbanism was associated with guerrilla gardeners and fly-by-night pop-up parks, whereas large-scale “city planning” was seen as the job of bureaucrats with blueprints. Stop thinking big 2012-06-16T16:00:00Z Once I complied, she created a narrow zone of concentration, focusing solely on Wolfe as they tackled her major scene, the frustrated doctor erupting at an incompetent government bureaucrat. Magazine Preview: Ellen Barkin Is No Uptown Girl 2011-04-22T14:15:12Z Cosimo was an able bureaucrat, not a soldier, so the armour is fancy dress, but this image says "invincible Machiavellian prince". Bronzino's Medici portraits ? review 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z A bureaucrat threatens to deport his best chambermaid. The Virgin Islands, Rewritten 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Brown was in “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” and so was Kyle Chandler, who once again plays her father, the anxious bureaucrat. ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Review: Let’s You and Him Fight 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z In “The Fifth Risk,” his heroes are federal bureaucrats. Michael Lewis Wonders Who’s Really Running the Government 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z There were no solemn-faced bureaucrats in dark suits, no reports on economic growth targets to be delivered. For One Night, China’s Great Hall of the People Reverberates With Music 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z After a decade toiling as a character actor in dozens of films and TV shows, he became famous for playing Ron Swanson, the gruff but lovable city bureaucrat on “Parks & Recreation.” Nick Offerman Becomes a Roadie for His Wife, Megan Mullally 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Straight-up defending the well-paid obstructive bureaucrat against attacks from students demanding widespread institutional change isn’t a good look for someone claiming to be an advocate on the left. Bring on the outrage: Go ahead and hate on “coddled” college kids — just admit that anti-p.c. backlash is fueled by outrage, too 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z The point is that everyone gets identical treatment – the format remains the same whether you're a bull or a bureaucrat. Alexander Melamid and Yinka Shonibare 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z One is remedial and pragmatic, the province of engineers and bureaucrats. Can the Chicago River be saved? 2013-02-24T15:00:00Z Pine in “The Night Manager” is a different and less interesting variety of hero than the tortured bureaucrat Smiley. Review: Le Carré’s ‘The Night Manager,’ With Amoral Arms Dealing 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z No – it is the result of minor bureaucrats sitting in regional offices ticking boxes. Letters: Rural theatre and poetry hit by cuts 2011-04-04T23:05:03Z Rival masters and students settle internal scraps while an overly thickened plot focuses on evil bureaucrat/colonists whose manipulation of the martial-arts community culminates in an East-meets-West boxing match. 'Ip Man 2': Sequel's martial-arts action beats the storytelling 2011-01-27T22:55:30Z In the National Theatre's production of Antigone, starring Christopher Eccleston and Jodie Whittaker, the similarities are even more explicit: the play opens with generals and bureaucrats gathered round a TV watching a war ending. Why the tale of Achilles and his lover still has the power to move us 2012-06-02T23:06:04Z If he's a rogue trader, he's operating in a vast gallery of rogues – business competitors, police, bureaucrats, politicians – and in his case, at least, he's a lovable rogue. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid – review 2013-04-21T06:00:29Z When a bureaucrat working to grease a high-speed-rail contract for Frank is found grotesquely murdered, Ray’s bosses and his patron want him to handle the case–though not necessarily to solve it. Review: More Angst, Less Poetry in a Lesser True Detective 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Wry in its art and its language, this picture book taught me the word "surfeit" and to beware of bureaucrats. Leigh Bardugo's top 10 childhood reads 2013-06-28T09:00:00Z Ms. Bell, who could turn a nimble line in “Veronica Mars,” makes a natural sitcom lead, and Mr. Danson makes a fine, fastidious bureaucrat. Review: In ‘The Good Place,’ Kristen Bell Is Dead and Crabby 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z On social media, many also mourned the death of the city’s free-wheeling and edgy spirit, killed off, they said, by the likes of the EMA’s army of bureaucrats. 'Expats go home': Amsterdam's visitor boom angers locals 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z "She spoke about freedom, it is the state bureaucrats who are lecturing us every day on all the state channels," a Twitter user called Alexander Oleinik wrote in response to Rogozin's posting in Russian. Russian official targets Madonna with crude tweet 2012-08-10T15:36:58Z At another point, a group of Saudi Arabian bureaucrats seeking advice about improving their country’s record on women’s rights is shown videoconferencing with Icelandic officials. Review: ‘A Room in India’ Overflows With Astonishing Visions 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Cesarani discusses the ferocity of Eichmann’s anti-Semitism—no mere bureaucrat, Eichmann enacted anti-Jewish projects with the passion of a true believer. Review: “Operation Finale” and the Popular Understanding of Adolf Eichmann 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Count it as a mixed blessing, for what self-respecting artist -- inherent outsiders and rule-breakers, if they're doing their job well -- wants a bureaucrat telling them how to do their business? The law remains the same 2011-10-04T19:17:00Z Agency bureaucrats and journalists responded with a volley of lawsuits, whistleblower complaints and a petition demanding the removal of Pack’s appointees. Former Voice of America overseer hired two law firms to $4 million no-bid contracts. 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z To the bureaucrats, policymakers and, yes, lobbyists who live here, the Washington of “Miss Sloane” and “House of Cards” is ludicrously overwrought and hyperbolic. At the dawn of the Trump era, cynicism in film has become instantly obsolete 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z I asked, wondering if she meant European Union bureaucrats, or wealthy Continental property-buyers. Lost in the Odyssey 2011-08-19T18:55:00Z The uniform of bureaucrats was first on the runway. Balenciaga put engineers, architects and moms on its runway — to make a statement about power in the workplace 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z The bureaucrat says: “They will tell you to go pick up cans in the park instead of school. Do not listen to them.” This Is What It’s Like to Be Homeless in New York City 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Beyond subsidy payments, a few such applications for Aadhaar already exist: one allows citizens to track in real time which bureaucrats are physically at their desk. Domesday 2.0 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z I wanted it to pull us out of this comfort—or almost boredom—with a bureaucrat and be constantly showing the effects and all the different sides of what’s going on. Adam McKay on the Veracity of “Vice” 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z It was far from the usual scripted, genteel interactions between top agency bureaucrats. ‘It’s John against the world right now’ In a world of staid agency bureaucrats, they were “spooks who played by their own rules, kindred spirits who validated each other’s quirky approach to their strait-laced profession.” Two Spies, Two Opposing Sides, One Fast Friendship 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z His father was a Cornell-schooled educator and a bureaucrat in the shah’s regime. Up Close: A Rebel’s Cause: Fortifying the Fashion Flock 2012-08-08T18:52:46Z Considered one of the best EHRs,VistA’s creation dates back to the 1970s, when a band of programmers at VA hospitals persisted in developing the EHR, even after VA bureaucrats shut their project down. Can An Open Source Electronic Health Record Ever Be Ready For Prime-Time? 2012-08-29T13:52:36Z In the other, black and Hispanic residents of public housing and white homeowners live the consequences of decisions made by elected officials and government bureaucrats. David Simon of ‘The Wire’ finds drama in public housing. But will the public tune in? 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z He falls foul of the bureaucrats for his Robin Hood altruism but is then taken up by exploitative entrepreneurs, who want to use his skills to produce wind-generated power. The Light Thief ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:41Z In these high-profile invited competitions, organised by risk-averse boards of corporate bureaucrats, it is not hard to see why Foster so often triumphs. Pitch battle: watch four star architects compete to design NY tower 2012-11-19T15:08:49Z Briefly, a trio of bureaucrats appears to complain to the disappeared Simon that his disappearance is wreaking havoc among the nations and the peoples of the world. Opera With Atmosphere of Brave New World 2010-10-04T12:00:00Z No matter how many customers are protected by shutting down a restaurant, though, the nit-picking, fine-levying bureaucrat will never be the protagonist of the story. The Life of a Restaurant Inspector: Rising Grades, Fainting Owners 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z The only on-the-job accidents that happen are caused by nosy, pencil-pushing government bureaucrats who prevent Rand’s heroic businessmen from doing whatever they think best. 10 more depraved lessons I learned reading Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z He’s a nobody, she says — a “terrifyingly normal” bureaucrat and a mediocrity, not a monster. ‘Hannah Arendt’: a ferocious portrayal of a blazing intellect 2013-07-19T12:59:40Z We are defending beauty, and the validity of our work, which we will not allow bureaucrats to squash.” The Battle Behind the 12-Hour ?Demons? 2010-06-26T02:41:00Z Or would it just prove a massive sinkhole for public funds, making a bunch of corrupt bureaucrats rich? Huevos de austeridad 2012-06-26T14:27:00Z Takashi Shimura is the bureaucrat whose diagnosis of terminal cancer initially sends him into alienated despair before he finds a kind of redemption in a project the hero of Drunken Angel might have appreciated. Akira Kurosawa: 10 essential films for the director's centenary | Ben Walters 2010-03-23T13:14:00Z "Much of what was discussed consisted of boring, but necessary, attention to due process," and the author replicates the many clauses and subclauses by which these enthusiastic would-be bureaucrats regulated their artistic activities. The Royal Academy: a story of sulks and squabbles 2013-01-04T22:55:14Z If a bureaucrat is going to testify before the House Intelligence Committee and be streamed into households around the country, it doesn’t hurt for him to remind Americans of the most trusted man in news. Perspective | What does female authority sound like? Marie Yovanovitch and Fiona Hill just showed us. 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z In some cases even bureaucrats care; Kolkata’s wetlands have been adapted for farming, fishing and treating sewage at minimal cost, “saving its taxpayers millions of dollars every year,” Ms. Watson writes. These Books Move Heaven and Earth 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The noncolor parts are the observations of a cynical, condescending Chinese bureaucrat dispatched from Beijing to interview the residents. Movie Review: ‘UFO in Her Eyes,’ a Chinese Satire, at MoMA 2012-06-12T23:02:22Z The third is the sagely or clerical-intellectual caste, dating from the days of the monks in medieval Christian society and finding its present-day embodiment in the bureaucrat, the technocrat and the expert. Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power by David Priestland – review 2012-08-23T09:40:01Z He is menaced by racist skinheads and thwarted by literal-minded bureaucrats. Review: In ‘The Other Side of Hope,’ an Old-Fashioned Humanist Fable 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z “Have you really met Marc Chagall?” one of the bureaucrats asks Strzeminski shortly after she fires him from what will be his last paying job. Review: Andrzej Wajda’s Vividly Rendered Last Film, ‘Afterimage’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z A visiting bureaucrat asks if he’s autistic, a question met with great indignation by the staff and never answered. Television Review: ‘Derek’ Stars Ricky Gervais as a Nursing Home Volunteer 2013-09-11T18:28:54Z Waiters in white jackets and fezzes ushered us upstairs, where we took a table among a genteel crowd of bureaucrats and their wives. | Choice Tables: Tasting Humble and High Cuisine in Istanbul 2011-09-30T18:55:00Z Politicians in the sinocentric “pan-blue” camp that primarily includes the Nationalists were less enthusiastic, as were bureaucrats in the Taipei museum, Mr. Lin said. A Taiwan Museum Featuring All of Asia 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Ostensibly an unremarkable London bureaucrat, Mycroft is unmarried, slightly overweight, sedentary and rather fussily set in his ways, passing most of his evenings at the ultra-quiet Diogenes Club. Review | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar returns to his other passion: Sherlock Holmes 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z It’s a big change from decades ago, when city bureaucrats considered good design a costly frill. New York?s Public Architecture Gets a Facelift 2011-10-10T12:00:00Z We need to be particularly careful when examining the language of bureaucrats and economists. The war against clich? has failed 2011-01-07T12:51:33Z Moreover, the Chinese Basketball Association is an arm of the government; as a result, league bureaucrats were more interested in protecting their positions and not creating waves than risking change. 'Brave Dragons:' Basketball as a mirror to modern China 2012-02-16T21:19:04Z Since the library publicly announced that it would not stock the book, he has been hounded by insults, with some people calling him a useless bureaucrat. ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ by E. L. James, in Demand at Libraries 2012-05-21T22:00:24Z I’ve highlighted in the past how federal bureaucrats have thwarted modest and successful reforms in Illinois and Indiana. Mitt Romney Outlines His Plan to Replace Obamacare 2012-06-21T03:27:49Z These bureaucrats want to relocate the families on several thousand acres and flood their land. Review: ‘Miller’s Valley,’ a stunning new novel by Anna Quindlen 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The threat, in this instance, is not only from rival criminal enterprises but also from real estate con artists, weak law enforcement, shifty corporate interests and hospital bureaucrats. Television: Postracial Vigilantes in a World in Peril 2010-09-06T22:51:00Z He usually spends his days haggling with landlords, complaining neighbors and city bureaucrats. Tales of a Winter?s Night: On a Bus From Brooklyn, the Party Rolls 2010-02-27T02:05:00Z The next minute, it asks you to be outraged at the supposed indifference of American bureaucrats, whether government officials or private contractors, to their employees in the Middle East. | 'Buried': Captive in Iraq, Stymied by Voice Mail 2010-09-23T23:03:00Z The workers are caught between the demands of ruthless contractors, snooty bureaucrats, animal rights activists and Hindus who hold monkeys sacred. Five International Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z The real Treholt was just a bureaucrat attempting to pass some folders pulled from a ubiquitous gray file cabinet to other bureaucrats over a brunch of sausages. The trippiest martial arts movie ever? 2011-08-27T15:01:00Z The first is the growing tendency of politicians and bureaucrats in Washington to turn to the armed forces when something, almost anything, needs doing. The space between 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The Tehran-born artist is known for producing paintings and animated works that record the misadventures of a variety of pudgy, middle-aged Everymen — of the sort one would imagine employed as low-level bureaucrats. Datebook: Hallucinogenic border imagery and a festival of performance art 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z The words of an arts bureaucrat, theatre director, artist or writer with a special case to plead? A blitzkrieg on the arts 2010-10-04T20:59:00Z Except for Isabella, the characters wear contemporary clothes, from business suits for the bureaucrats to leftover “Cabaret” costumes for Mistress Overdone. Review: In ‘Measure for Measure,’ Desperately Seeking Solutions in a Problem Play 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z Executives for the project said "Show Me a Hero" explores notions of home, race and community through the lives of elected officials, bureaucrats, activists and ordinary citizens in Yonkers, N.Y. HBO to launch miniseries from David Simon and Paul Haggis 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Whatever concerns he once had about alarming the public soon gave way to concerns about foot-dragging federal bureaucrats. Robert Kennedy Jr.’s belief in autism-vaccine connection, and its political peril The Solution Not the local bureaucrats, dependent on the tourist dollar for their survival and reluctant to close off the beaches. Watch Out! Summer Means Disaster Movies 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z His depictions of the day-to-day business of activists and bureaucrats have uncommon authority. ‘Christodora’: A powerful novel about the AIDS crisis and its legacy 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z The combination of the code of secrecy, turf warfare among bureaucrats and personal ambition ensured that Montgomery’s claims went untested and made their way up through the intelligence ranks to the Oval Office. James Risen’s ‘Pay Any Price’ 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Also known as the Yes Men, they are experts at impersonating corporate shills and government bureaucrats in bogus, sometimes hilarious news conferences that undermine the agendas of the institutions they pretend to represent. The DOC NYC Film Festival Returns 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z That can mean many things, but in the hands of bureaucrats and advocates, this diffuse requirement somehow came to mean that women are entitled to “statistical proportionality.” Title IX: How a Good Law Went Terribly Wrong 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z The mindset among the many layers of bureaucrats who failed to protect Flint is the dragon in Mona Hanna-Attisha’s account of the crisis, “What the Eyes Don’t See.” ‘What the Eyes Don’t See’ Review: Sounding Flint’s Siren 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Of course, libraries are under attack; funding cuts and the propensity of shortsighted bureaucrats and techno-utopians to pronounce them irrelevant in the age of Google are the primary culprits. Click here or we’ll burn this book 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z With admirable thoroughness and clarity, Pinchin guides us through the human ecosystem that surrounds bluefin tuna — the scientists, the activists, the fishermen, the bureaucrats. In bluefin tuna, fisheries science is never neat 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z In the 1930s, these two men — Dr. Henry Smith Williams and bureaucrat Harry Anslinger — were at odds with one another about how to deal with the problem of addiction. This 1938 book on addiction could have stopped the war on drugs 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z But Madsen's sequence where Orpheus is forced to ask a panel of Underworld bureaucrats for Eurydice's return as if he were applying for an art grant works as well as ever. Review: SDP's 'Project Orpheus' benefits from roomier setting 2010-09-22T21:31:00Z It was developed at VA hospitals in the 1970s by a determined band of programmers who went rogue when VA bureaucrats shut their project down. Open Source Electronic Health Records: A Cost Solution For Hospitals 2012-08-24T14:12:25Z But she is shocked at the apparent inertia of the various public health bureaucrats whom she expects to be taking action. ‘What the Eyes Don’t See’ Review: Sounding Flint’s Siren 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Having participated in the government’s anti-gay agenda decades ago may be embarrassing to older politicians and retired bureaucrats. In America’s past, a culture of animus against federal workers 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z A healthy museum architecture department explores the kinds of ideas that are rarely addressed in the back and forth between government bureaucrats and bottom-line developers that characterizes most large-scale design projects. Architecture Review | 'Rising Currents: Projects for New York?s Waterfront': Imagining a More Watery New York 2010-03-25T23:27:00Z Like Adams — with whom she is good friends — Katz is Coloured: in her case Indigenous Khoe, which the racist bureaucrats filed into that broader category. Art That Finds Clarity in South Africa’s Fraught Terrain 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Supercilious bureaucrats and functionaries have control over him. A spellbinding descent into chaos: ‘The Trial’ 2013-04-11T18:36:42Z There is something deeply disturbing in how, later, he changes from a torturer in jeans to a well-dressed Washington bureaucrat. Zero Dark Thirty: Hollywood's gift to American power 2013-01-25T16:00:02Z Battling for more than a decade with a shifting, indifferent roster of midlevel government bureaucrats, he found he “had no partner,” as he put it. The Ascension of Peter Zumthor 2011-03-13T05:00:20Z What I'd like you to think about," he said, with an encouraging but impish grin, "is all the subjects you think we old bureaucrats would never dare broadcast; all the banned topics. Letters: Stephen Hearst obituary 2010-04-14T17:47:00Z For decades Trotsky’s jealous dismissal — “the gray blur,” the faceless bureaucrat — was the utterly misleading orthodoxy. Martin Amis on Lenin’s Deadly Revolution 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Cameras lead into government offices; bureaucrats talk on phones, and new task chairs and cubicles are still covered in plastic. Auctioning off utopia 2013-07-14T22:00:00Z Its bureaucrats are left to try to salvage communism through fire-sale capitalism: selling off artworks, importing garbage from West Germany, allowing medical tests on its citizens. Review: ‘Deutschland 86,’ an East-West Thriller, Looks South 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z And most intriguing of all is a high-level bureaucrat, played by Robert Redford with a silken smoothness edged with a subtle sense of danger. ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’: a hot sequel 2014-04-02T22:12:05Z Are you going to believe in a group of bureaucrats, or are you going to believe in free people, consumers, and providers who are trained to help those folks, and believe in that? Is Rick Santorum a Conservative Health-Care Champion? 2012-01-06T20:14:53Z Why, he asks, didn’t the pair split the $1.5 million they had lifted from a thieving county bureaucrat and his criminally inclined wife? 'Better Call Saul' Season 1 Finale Recap: It's Never Stopping Me Again 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z The villains and heroes involved — the bureaucrats and doctors, journalists and politicians — seem too much like Hollywood types to be true. ‘Collective’ Review: When Tragedy Consumes a Nation 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z The study of political institutions helps us to understand the context and rules that influence how elected officials, other representatives and bureaucrats behave. Philosopher Susan Neiman: "The president of our country is evil" 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z He often read infuriating news items to me, grinning while I stomped around, haranguing the offending bureaucrat or despot or whatever. My Marriage: A Course in Desert Survival 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The bureaucrats and scientists who have tried to warn against the folly of treating every wildfire like a mortal foe have discovered their message is a nonstarter. Are the American West’s Wildfires Inevitable? 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z The mayor counted a solid expansion of the Police Department and the rewriting of the City Charter, creating neighborhood councils and easing the path for firing underperforming bureaucrats, among his successes. 'The Mayor' by Richard Riordan short on revelations, insight 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z With bitter discernment, Thierry notes that, though he himself is unemployed, the pointless training provided work for the trainer and other bureaucrats. A Movie that Captures France’s Dystopian Employment Situation 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z As government bureaucrats go, Gibson is a bit of a renegade. In the Twittersphere, the D.C. Council went from dry to wry thanks to this guy 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z But something more sinister — sensible violence? — is going on in the military compound just out of town, where the bureaucrat presides over a top-secret program involving a group of children with special powers. DVDs: Sinister Doings in Losey?s ?These Are the Damned? 2010-04-04T03:00:00Z “Reporters started to like him. . . . For Beltway reporters bored with bureaucrats, McCain was fresh, new and different.” John McCain knew how to make journalists love him 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Then he disappears, leaving Weber with a big problem, very little time and a network of spies and bureaucrats who, in some cases, are keen to see him fall flat on his handsome, tanned face. ‘The Director,’ by David Ignatius Congress continues to tirelessly advocate on my behalf by dealing with bureaucrats from the Department of Homeland Security. Stuck in Western Samoa: Please let me come home 2012-10-10T00:00:00Z “War Machine” effectively rebuts the evergreen notion that military leaders are held back from victory by politicians and bureaucrats. Review: ‘War Machine’: Brad Pitt Has Met the Enemy. He Just Doesn’t Know It Yet. 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Two centuries of wrangling among bureaucrats and the people, plus politicians and artists, have made the National Mall a permanent record of passing certainties. The National Mall’s immortal reflection 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z From time to time he attacked "fat-bellied bureaucrats", bad service and other shortcomings of the Soviet system. Andrei Voznesensky obituary 2010-06-03T18:01:00Z Much of the reason for this wrangling with bureaucrats and government officials, Mr. Nittve and others said, is the lack of a developed museum culture in Hong Kong and, more generally, Asia. In Hong Kong, Fears for an Art Museum 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z Alone among German leaders,” the magazine went on, referring to the gray, proficient bureaucrats who tend to run the country, he made “voters’ hearts quicken.” Abroad: In Germany, Uproar Over a Doctoral Thesis 2011-03-14T16:58:11Z Gretton weaves personal anecdotes into a sweeping history of the bureaucrats who have murdered countless people while keeping a safe distance from the carnage. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Alisa, a Black woman; her white husband, Abram; and their daughters soon come under scrutiny by bureaucrats, bringing a tragic end to the life they knew. 8 Books Coming in December 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z But surely the advantage that artists have over bureaucrats is precisely the freedom to make the unheard audible and to conjure the unimaginable. ‘A Gun Show’ Raises Questions Beyond the Music 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Damon plays Max, a blue-collar worker with a criminal past struggling with robot bureaucrats and policemen in his shantytown. 'Elysium' delivers action, destruction and a deeper message on life 2013-08-07T17:44:45Z But it is the men and women inside the machinery — the bureaucrats and politicians — who move the pieces around the board. Review | In ‘2034: A novel of the Next World War,’ it’s man against machine 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Indeed, there are many images here of the bad old days--the tanks in the streets, the thought police, the bureaucrats, the stomping on individual freedoms. 'Show Your Face' this weekend only at MCA 2011-01-14T22:36:36Z It’s also the kind of landscape that urges you to spread out and — far from bishops and bureaucrats down south — think daring, independent thoughts. On the Pilgrims? Path Through England and the Netherlands 2011-11-17T20:41:15Z Watching their boss, bureaucrats act on their own, freelancing the punishment of whistleblowers, knowing their retaliatory actions will be condoned. Army tank made of cupcakes 2012-06-15T14:54:00Z For even as you share in the glee of bureaucrats from a small Northern European nation pulling off a remarkable coup, you’re reminded of how transitory their success was. Review | ‘Oslo’ is an incisive, and dispiriting, look at a stunning pact between Israel and the PLO 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z The movie portrays the Soviets as plucky underdogs held back by a lack of resources, scheming sports bureaucrats, and health problems. We are the champions: basketball film wows Russians before election 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Make it to the front and the bureaucrats demand to know your place of birth, even your eye colour. And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-22T17:30:01Z He realized he wanted to be a writer, not a bureaucrat. Francis Fukuyama Predicted the End of History. It’s Back (Again). 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z When she meets a bureaucrat, she arrives well armed. This Is What It’s Like to Be Homeless in New York City 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z And indeed, this was a bit of information I didn’t think even the Balad bureaucrats would be able to slough off. "I know where Saddam Hussein is hiding": What I saw in Iraq right after the 2003 U.S. invasion 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Sebald doesn't mention Kurt Waldheim's name in the book, nor does he need to clinch the thought: how disgusting that a bureaucrat of the Holocaust is humanity's representative out there in space. WG Sebald: Darkness on the edge of Anglia 2011-01-25T21:31:00Z Ms. Deneuve may wear the clothes of a dowdy bourgeois housewife, and Mr. Depardieu may assume some of the tics of a beleaguered, anxious bureaucrat, but their charisma is immune to fashion or time. | 'Potiche': Labor Strife? Send in the Boss?s Wife 2011-03-24T21:03:06Z It is they, not politicians and bureaucrats, who need to have a say in what happens to this valuable Mancunian treasure. Manchester City Library book pulping: text of letter of protest 2012-06-22T15:44:53Z People are sincere but lack passion and the ability to detect sarcasm; food is scarce and lacks salt; literal-minded bureaucrats appear well-intentioned but are borderline malevolent. J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Sees the World as Don Quixote Does 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z It is an exuberant gesture, rather than a bureaucrat’s pen that changes a citizen’s marriage status, for example. Design Fiction: Real Solutions, Unreal Problems 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z A soft “absolutism” has now “replaced a democratic republic” in America, he writes, and “overpaid” bureaucrats, along with overregulation, were responsible for both the Great Depression of the 1930s and the great recession of 2008. How Should We Understand Clarence Thomas? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z The graphic novel flips back and forth between interrogations of nude or nearly nude prisoners in detention facilities and their lives being discussed by suited bureaucrats in offices. 'The Torture Report: A Graphic Adaptation' illustrates the grim reality of CIA interrogation techniques post 9/11 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z There’s even a communist bureaucrat who stalks Anya across Europe because he is obsessed with obliterating the Romanovs. Perspective | If you’ve seen one princess fairy tale, you know what to expect with ‘Anastasia’ 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z MADISON, Wis. — You know you live in a state consumed by politics when a webcam showing bureaucrats silently shuffling around a nondescript room feeding papers into a scanner attracts tens of thousands of viewers. Boring Wisconsin recall webcam draws big audience 2012-01-20T13:04:00Z Natural wine producers in historic regions are largely responsible for rediscovering and protecting local grapes and styles, which, if bureaucrats and powerful critics had their way, might have disappeared. 12 Natural Wines to Drink Now 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Placid, fair Grace marries a wealthy and officious bureaucrat. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z What about a bureaucrat absolutely losing his mind about the off-the-book antics of a renegade officer? ‘Central Intelligence,’ Buddy Cops and the Art of Mismatched Pairs 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Pence looks the part of a polished bureaucrat, which may be his greatest skill of all. Perspective | Mike Pence had a few things to say at the convention: Trump is great. Trump is great. And Trump is great. 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Believe it or not, that turns out to be an acquired skill, even for a former pasty government bureaucrat like me. The glamorous life of a whistleblower: Working a dead-end job for minimum wage 2014-04-25T12:15:00Z But he discovered that the agency trained more bureaucrats than James Bonds. Q&A: The CIA Officer Behind the New Spy Drama ‘The Americans’ 2013-01-30T12:59:58Z Even more frightened and edgy than usual in the post-9/11 era, bureaucrats take their cues from the top. Army tank made of cupcakes 2012-06-15T14:54:00Z Gray’s film includes the infamous incident in which a U.S. government health bureaucrat told a congressional committee that Africans lacked a Western sense of time, and did not use clocks or watches. Pick of the week: Big Pharma’s African genocide 2013-09-05T23:00:00Z The Lacuna tells the story of Harrison Shepherd, the child of a flighty, hopeful Mexican mother, and a faceless US bureaucrat father, who gets caught up in great moments of world history. Barbara Kingsolver: from witch hunt to winner 2010-06-10T17:36:00Z Is his refusal to accept the writing on the wall an admirable streak of parental devotion or a relic of an era when bureaucrats always got their way? Stream These Five International Films Now 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Rounds of eye surgery and infectious diseases on the road did not faze her; bureaucrats did. Antiques: Johan Zoffany, Portraitist; Diaries of M. Louise Baker 2011-10-20T20:53:53Z Which character is more like you: lord of the manor or master bureaucrat? | Hugh Bonneville: Hugh Bonneville, Star of the Olympics Comedy ‘Twenty Twelve’ 2012-06-24T03:30:52Z The real struggle is between the managers and bureaucrats of the Ford Motor Company and the mavericks whose work rolls out onto the track bearing the Ford logo. ‘Ford v Ferrari’ Review: It’s a Gas 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z In other words the level of freedom the British subject enjoys is entirely dependent upon mood & psychology of those professional politicians and bureaucrats that run their government apparatus and news papers. ‘The Crown’ Episodes 1 and 2: Stiff Lips, Warm Heart 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Lighter in tone than The Girl, Hitchcock is a portrait of an extraordinary artist, a crafty hoodwinker triumphing over the unimaginative front-office suits and bureaucrats of the studios and the censorship boards. Hitchcock – review 2013-02-10T00:05:00Z Audiences enjoyed the scrupulously nonpartisan skewering of narcissistic politicians and obstructionist bureaucrats. Antony Jay, a Machiavelli Scholar and a Creator of ‘Yes Minister,’ Dies at 86 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Tami wants more heart and soul in the Texas system, and her position seems to resonate, especially when held against the unfeeling positions of the middle-aged-white-guy bureaucrats who were sitting onstage with her. ArtsBeat: 'Friday Night Lights' Watch: The Return of Tim Riggins 2011-06-25T02:00:06Z The cosmonauts and bureaucrats eventually adopted an age-old technique. T Magazine: First Man Up 2011-03-08T14:00:35Z This look at many of the New Yorkers who played noteworthy roles in the war weaves in songwriters, bureaucrats, physicists who worked on the atom bomb and politicos, including, of course, Franklin Roosevelt. New in Paperback: ‘The Source of Self-Regard’ and ‘Horizon’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Having once been one of those frightened bureaucrats at the State Department, I now must include myself among the victims of the freelancing attacks on whistleblowers. Army tank made of cupcakes 2012-06-15T14:54:00Z After a Sunday screening in Jerusalem, Rina Brick, 70, said she was surprised by the humaneness of the Iranian bureaucrats portrayed in the film. Iran state TV says Oscar win victory over Israel 2012-02-27T13:29:08Z She wants to strain all that Tudor madness through the guarded, gray, ironical gaze of a bureaucrat. 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Cromwell, the Nobody Who Gets Things Done 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Clearly another battle of mind-sets is going to get going between Tami Taylor and the complacent bureaucrats of East Dillon High. ArtsBeat: 'Friday Night Lights' Watch: The Final Season on NBC 2011-04-18T14:24:31Z King was abetted by a world of academics and higher-ed bureaucrats who forgot that, if we are wise, we should be most gratified to learn when we are wrong. The Harvard Professor Who Told the World That Jesus Had a Wife 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z “We need to stay away from a bureaucrat making decisions for individual farmers,” he says. One way to get Big Agriculture to clean up its act 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z In the work he depicts corrupt clergymen and bureaucrats burning in hell. ArtsBeat: Museum Director in Ukraine Paints Over a Mural She Doesn’t Like 2013-08-01T16:51:45Z He plays Mr. Williams, a buttoned-up, almost catatonically reticent bureaucrat in post-World War II London who, upon learning that he is dying, decides finally to live. Bill Nighy, Master of Misdirection 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Speaking in the voice of a perfectly reasonable bureaucrat, Swift begins by describing the piteous state of beggars and their children “all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms.” Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z "I don't think you can fire federal bureaucrats, but you can reassign them," he said. GOP slams Obama over new jobless figures 2011-12-03T02:31:00Z First, within the context of a comedy about eccentric bureaucrats, it’s developed a believable, relatable story about two ambitious people making a relationship work without sacrificing their careers. TV Tonight: Parks and Recreation Goes Big and Goes Home 2012-09-20T15:55:18Z The chapter titles take the form of instructions to the reader: "Move to the city", "Get an education", "Work for yourself", "Befriend a bureaucrat", and so on. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid – review 2013-03-28T08:00:02Z Marginalized by bureaucrats and absent strong community support, the addressee needs a human being, right there. Why the 'open letter to mothers' trend needs to stop 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Scott Z. Burns wrote the script, and he embeds us with the crisis managers, scientists and bureaucrats who are looking, rationally, for answers, devising containment strategies, working toward a vaccine. For Me, Rewatching ‘Contagion’ Was Fun, Until It Wasn’t 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z But the new setting brought precious little in the way of actual change for Gotham City’s uncaped crusader, who again found himself cornered by malevolent nutters and oppressed by bureaucrats. 'Gotham' Recap: Gordon's New Gig Brings Same Old Hassles 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z The politicians and bureaucrats knew someone was watching — accountability journalism. The end comes for another local newspaper, 165 years after it began 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Imagine believing that the Democrats’ business-friendly insurance reforms included panels of bureaucrats who would decide when to let you die, as Sarah Palin infamously suggested. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z The two-time defense secretary and one-time presidential candidate whose reputation as a skilled bureaucrat and visionary of a modern U.S. military was unraveled by the long and costly Iraq war. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z It is perhaps true that Bebbe Grillo and, perhaps, Al Franken, are not in their heart of hearts comedians, but, actually, reformers – enlightened bureaucrats who ache to bring honesty and improvement to the system. No laughing matter: Comedians from Italy to the US are reforming politics 2013-03-04T16:09:27Z These career diplomats, bureaucrats, keepers of obscure but incredibly important knowledge, swore to tell the truth and then sat at the wooden table to face the House Intelligence Committee. Perspective | Their testimony was pointed. Their clothes were reassuringly dull. 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z He gathered a headless crew of empty suits around a table, where the bureaucrats dutifully assist a corpulent and gleeful President von Hindenburg and his fat-headed, arms manufacturing crony. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Crabtree describes in detail the manner in which the billionaires of this cohort got rich with the help of politicians and bureaucrats. ‘The Billionaire Raj’ Review: Gatsby on the Ganges 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z In an enjoyable column, Holroyd attacked politicians' weakness for the dramatic and bureaucrats' addiction to the opaque. Author, author: Henry Hitchings on neologisms 2011-02-05T00:05:32Z It’s a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s “Ikiru,” about a paper-pushing bureaucrat in postwar Japan roused out of his paralyzing inertia in the final months of his life. Bill Nighy, Master of Misdirection 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z At 14, he joined the early cohorts of Uyghur students to enroll at the Minzu University of China in Beijing, which trains students from regions with large ethnic minority populations to become party bureaucrats. A Uyghur Author and Translator Were Detained. Now, Their Novel Speaks For Them. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The protagonist, Theo, played by Clive Owen, is a low-level bureaucrat and depressed former activist drawn back into the struggle after agreeing to help a resistance group led by his ex-partner, played by Julianne Moore. Still Stoking Terror: The Hopeless World of ‘Children of Men’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Readers may find it a little odd that Rumsfeld, that terror of bureaucrats in the George W. Bush administration, extols the virtues of Christian turn-the-other-cheek leadership. Gerald Ford, President Nice Guy 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z The Devil, we learn, was once seen rather as a bureaucrat. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 29 October - 2 November 2012-10-29T08:00:00Z He is patronised by do-gooders, interrogated by bureaucrats and consigned to wash dishes in an old people's home. Literature of journeys: Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser 2013-07-15T11:56:45Z “He profiles a cross-section of the organizers, visionaries, bureaucrats, promoters, planners, hikers, writers and politicians who brought the Appalachian Trail into existence,” Jonathan Miles writes in his review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z In person, Mr. Covey, 41, strikes a figure somewhere between aging punk rocker and detail-obsessed bureaucrat. A Bridge Over Musicians? Visa Barrier Into the U.S. 2010-03-16T21:51:00Z In Catherine’s telling, the bureaucrat handling the application used the opportunity to scold Mary. Arrivederci, Little Italy 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z When the government sent cloisonné gifts outside Peking, bureaucrats from the imperial household traveled with them. Antiques: Prized Chinese Crafts, Delicate and Detailed 2011-01-27T21:37:59Z But there are no whistle-blowers in Clark’s book, no single bureaucrat who decided to poison the children of the city in order to save a few bucks in the budget. Two Views of Flint’s Water Troubles: One a Close-Up and One With a Wide-Angle Lens 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z This sense of administrative finality is familiar to anyone whose life hinges on the indifferent signature of a bureaucrat, and Demetrio has had enough. The Horrors of Immigration and the Pleasures of Food in a Debut Novel 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Though government bureaucrats arrested and imprisoned Ai Weiwei for tax evasion and raided his Shanghai studio in 2011, they cannot seem to contain his artistic reach. Ai Weiwei's Alcatraz Show Challenges Global Ideas of Freedom 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z “Venus on the Half-Shell” is about the accidental destruction of the earth by incompetent universal bureaucrats, and the attempt by the sole surviving human being to seek answers to the so-called Ultimate Question. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Ms. Poehler’s Leslie Knope was always an improbable sitcom heroine, a fiercely ambitious, hardworking, happy and, by Season 5, happily married city bureaucrat who actually wants to help people, and is pilloried for it. ‘Parks and Recreation’ Finale Ends Show’s Run, Sunny as Ever 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z When Capt. Chen gets to Washington, his first request stuns the security bureaucrats. High-tech 'Blackhat' remains rooted in old-school filmmaking 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z "We call them and say 'Come on, we're shooting,'" said Mohammad Shah Majroh, a Jalalabad bureaucrat who oversees film permits and acts as the local movie world's godfather. Defying the Taliban, one (bad) movie at a time 2010-06-19T16:02:00Z However, board members and Arts Council and government bureaucrats tend to prefer a single finger on the trigger to avoid the risk of policy and responsibility becoming blurred. Why the National Theatre could use a history lesson from Richard Eyre 2013-07-12T07:30:06Z Village 113 is a place that is about to be wiped off the map of China by bureaucrats because a government-authorized dam is scheduled to be built. Books of The Times: Anthony Doerr?s ?Memory Wall,? Fleeting Yesterdays 2010-07-28T22:07:00Z How many cop shows and movies have we seen in which dirty police officers fake proof to satisfy the obstructionist bureaucrats when they know someone is guilty? ArtsBeat: The 'Killing' Finale: Clearer Than You Thought 2011-06-20T17:49:34Z “I just hope it touches those politicians and bureaucrats to open their hearts up. Really that’s about it in a nutshell.” Saroo Brierley, the inspiration for the film Lion: 'The tears spoke for themselves' 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z I know how powerless local people feel in the face of smooth-talking, unaccountable bureaucrats. What have Labour done for architecture? 2010-04-21T20:30:00Z Because public officials and bureaucrats are fond of saying “in the name of the people.” He served nearly 44 years in solitary confinement. He was innocent of the crime. 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z “Herd immunity means everyone becomes a zombie,” Zach tells a dithering bureaucrat. Review: From ‘The Good Wife’ to the Covid Zombie Apocalypse 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z The city, then, is never as rational as its founders, patrons, architects, planners, bureaucrats and engineers might have wished it to be. City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age by PD Smith – review 2012-06-08T21:55:08Z Like all bureaucrats, he is only part of a process: "Nothing to do with me." The Captain of Köpenick; Pierrepoint: The Hangman's Tale – review 2013-02-10T00:05:21Z “There’s something about the word 'migrant' that we hear and it sounds abstract, like a statistical problem for a bureaucrat to deal with,” Carpignano said. Cannes 2015: For 'Mediterranea' director, boat people as film drama 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z He stuck to Ai's account of the interrogations, but drew on his own imagination for two scenes in which bureaucrats discuss what to do with the troublesome artist. Art crashes into authority in play about Ai Weiwei 2013-04-16T12:01:09Z Dozens if not hundreds of states around the world turned questions of customs and immigration enforcement, once left to anonymous bureaucrats, into pressing matters of national defense. What Are Borders For? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Vorotnikov suggested that the prize jury had defeated bureaucrats who tried to deny the group the prize. Voina, art group backed by Banksy, wins Russian prize for erection 2011-04-08T15:20:50Z He would, one suspects, champion the bureaucrat over the ideologue any day. The Silence of Animals by John Gray – review 2013-02-15T10:20:01Z Access to international markets is difficult, bank loans are nonexistent, and trips outside Sanaa can require hours of haggling with petty bureaucrats and local tribes. The Coffee-Flavored American Dream 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z In person, Hayden was a spirited contrarian, loyal to his co-workers and pupils, and brutally dismissive of bureaucrats and time-servers, of whom, inevitably, in a director-led National Theatre, there are always a good few. David Hare on Hayden Griffin: 'He made great directional spaces for gifted players to shine in' 2013-04-01T15:49:46Z Photograph: Rory Carroll for the Guardian Government denials about any cancer-causing fallout unravelled in the 1980s, when lawsuits uncovered internal AEC reports showing scientists and bureaucrats downplayed and distorted evidence. Hollywood and the downwinders still grapple with nuclear fallout 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z This phase started with “Man of Marble,” which he completed in 1976 but which was kept from audiences abroad until a political thaw in Warsaw emboldened bureaucrats to issue it an export license in 1978. Andrzej Wajda, Towering Auteur of Polish Cinema, Dies at 90 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z She has not been afraid to confront bureaucrats, especially those whom she deems unhelpful, lazy or uncaring. 10 years after Austin Tice’s abduction in Syria, his parents still fight for him 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Schadenfreude fills his 1955 letter to a Washington bureaucrat about the orchestra’s European tour. Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z He’s a bureaucrat, and he’s battling the left, he’s battling the right, he’s battling the NAACP. Paul Haggis on “Show Me a Hero” and bringing the politics of fear to life: “That’s still what we do all the time. It’s how politics is practiced in America” 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Burnt coffee, the odor of productivity, floated on the breeze at L’Enfant Plaza, where local reporters ringed the escalators looking for bureaucrats to interrogate. ‘I came back to 4,459 emails’: Washington is back to work, and in a tizzy 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z The problem is compounded by descriptions that often sound as if they were written by and for bureaucrats, which frequently is the case, given the genre’s dependence on institutional financing. Art Review: ?Living as Form? at Essex Street Market - Review 2011-09-29T22:41:46Z When in a movie a harried, cynical, pencil-pushing government bureaucrat is saddled with an assignment he doesn’t want, during a crisis in his employment, you know how it’s going to go. ‘The Last Full Measure’ Review: Remembering a Fallen War Hero 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z At least Orwell's Ministry of Truth was run by red-blooded bureaucrats. Philip K. Dick predicted ChatGPT and its grim ramifications 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z Brown Dog, distraught over her fate at the hands of well-meaning bureaucrats, conscripts some unlikely allies to his cause. Jim Harrison’s ‘Brown Dog’: full life for a mischief-maker with a noble heart 2013-12-18T22:50:20Z Sometimes that’s true, but look closely and you’ll find that the clothes of career diplomats and bureaucrats are often modern and relevant and proper. Perspective | Their testimony was pointed. Their clothes were reassuringly dull. 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Rumsfeld returned to the Pentagon at age 68 to “transform” the department that he’d first helmed 25 years prior, and found bureaucrats standing in his way. Perspective | ‘Nothing ever ends’: Sorting through Rumsfeld’s knowns and unknowns 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, politicians and bureaucrats jockey for ideological advantage, cutting and slicing literature along ethnic, cultural and nationalistic lines. Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z He was not a youthful horse thief, though he once spent two days in jail for being rude to a local bureaucrat. ‘Rasputin’ Unravels the Myths of the ‘Mad Monk’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z If Theodore Roosevelt was the swashbuckling emblem of the country’s formal empire, Herbert Hoover — “an astonishingly capable bureaucrat” before he became a not-very-capable president — represented the turn toward globalization, standardization and logistics. ‘How to Hide an Empire’ Shines Light on America’s Expansionist Side 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z They were replaced by a middle class — professionals, government bureaucrats, business owners, said Enrique Krauze, a prominent Mexican historian and writer. Mexico City as the Director of ‘Roma’ Remembers It (and Hears It) 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z He is Greek, she is Indian; he is a bureaucrat, she is a vet. The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas 2010-05-07T23:17:00Z Tom reclining in a spa chair alongside the more uptight bureaucrat Ben, whom they’ve dragged along, when the two are confronted by Donna, her face full of acupuncture needles, a Zen Pinhead from “Hellraiser.” Television: ?Parks and Recreation? and Other Sitcoms? Hashtags and Memes 2011-12-09T22:31:54Z “You are a petty bureaucrat,” he tells her. Review: ‘Fire in Dreamland’ Is a Parable of Love and Licorice 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Or “insufficiently dead,” to be more accurate; his return to the realm of the living is, according to one bureaucrat, “due to an institutional error.” Review | Amy Bonnaffons’s ‘The Regrets’ puts an otherworldly spin on the breakup novel 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z "God is regulating the demographic situation," suggests one bureaucrat about the rocketing number of births. Do We Look Like Refugees?! 2010-08-19T15:48:00Z Tyrion is, in other words, that most un-ballyhooed of people in a genre that tends to be more focused on the glories of warriors and kings: The really excellent bureaucrat. "Game of Thrones" fans are wrong about Tyrion Lannister 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z At the start, in a black suit, he looks like a knock-kneed, buttoned-up bureaucrat, arms tight by his side, fingers twitching, voice creakily restrained. Hamlet – review 2013-03-31T00:05:19Z In the end it was low-level bureaucrats who stood in their way, especially when it came to the troupe’s final performances in Beijing, which end on Sunday. Play on Pentagon Papers Goes On in Beijing, but Not a Talk 2011-12-03T02:27:23Z Sharpe — no pressure — needed to play so expertly that he would convince a panel of antagonistic bureaucrats it’s a game of skill, not chance, thus overturning a decades-old citywide ban. The man who saved pinball gets his Hollywood moment. Reluctantly. 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z A natural bureaucrat, I actively enjoy filling out forms. Review | Can a new self-help book cure procrastination? I tried it and here’s what I found. 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z As an alternative to formalism, Soviet musical bureaucrats championed socialist realism: a style of art that would be intelligible to everyday people and promote national values. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z That, plus a cloying — but purely verbal — deference to questions of institutional loyalty are calculated to conceal as knife-sharp a set of elbows as any accomplished bureaucrat ever swung. Books: Donald Rumsfeld on being the smartest guy in the room 2011-02-08T08:01:00Z Eichmann, rather than acting on evil impulses, acted in an unthinking manner: a bureaucrat incapable of comprehending the consequences of his actions on his victims. A Handy Guide to the Philosophers Referenced in 'Irrational Man' 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Steve Rogers, a loyal creature of the American military, recoiled at the idea of global bureaucrats interfering with the group’s world-protecting mission. Poking at Politics, Without a Stick, on Big and Small Screens 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Anya and her friend are planning to go to Italy, possibly as part of a sex-trafficking scheme enabled by the shop teacher and a cooperative bureaucrat. Review: ‘The Tribe’ Communicates Without Words 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z After the movement was snuffed out, he was recruited upon graduation as a Uyghur language instructor at the Central Party School in Beijing, which educated future bureaucrats. A Poet Captures the Terror of Life in an Authoritarian State 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z His novels are made up of cops, lawyers, crooks and bureaucrats, outdoing one another in corruption, hypocrisy and folly, in the Boston area. David Mamet on His Inspirations for ‘The Anarchist’ 2012-11-18T04:30:01Z Yet Somalis weren’t just tossed into Maine by government bureaucrats. As Maine goes, so goes the nation: Will this small city’s mayoral election predict a Trump victory in 2016? 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Civil order collapses as scientists and government bureaucrats try desperately to stop the slide toward the abyss. 'Contagion': Hair-raising thriller keeps its cool 2011-09-07T21:42:09Z In September, Ms. Admony finally appeased the bureaucrats and returned all her seats to active duty. Restaurant Review: Bar Bolonat in the West Village 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z As he was given his assignment, he was told by a merchant marine bureaucrat, “So far as anybody’s concerned, your father is a bartender on the West Side.” Books of The Times: John Moynihan?s ?Voyage of the Rose City? ? Review 2011-09-29T22:01:35Z In his case, that meant the Texas oilmen who were his biggest bankers, the journalists who acted as his megaphone and bureaucrats like the F.B.I.’s J. Edgar Hoover. ‘Demagogue’ Remembers a Vintage American Bully 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z The premise of the five films that comprise the Dirty Harry series was that stupid or corrupt bureaucrats were making it impossible for honest, hard-working policemen to do their jobs. The meaning of Clint: what watching 40 Eastwood films has taught me 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z And, most important, the origins of Marx's lifelong disgust for the "society of orders", the authoritarian and absolutist monarchies of pre-revolutionary Germany peopled with aristocrats, bureaucrats and military officers. Karl Marx: a Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber – review 2013-06-26T07:00:04Z When this opens up, the bureaucrats and the people in power will benefit. Tania Bruguera on her art, her detentions and what happens next 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z The bureaucrats and security men often live in shabby areas of cities such as Damascus and Homs. Paying the price 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The Boston Herald today reported that the state of Massachusetts is fining a local small business $3,000 because their $750 a month insurance plan is inadequate, according to the bureaucrats in Boston. Gingrich in 2006: Romneycare is 'Exciting' and 'Has Tremendous Potential' 2011-12-27T03:41:36Z Trump worked so hard for his flaccid, sanitized photograph: a man standing with nothing but white bureaucrats — most of them men — on the plaza in front of a neatly boarded-up house of worship. Perspective | Trump’s photo with his loyalists was a vulgar mess. And Ivanka brought a handbag. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z And if Stan runs afoul of FBI bureaucrats again, Warren adds, “you come to me.” 'The Americans' recap: Cold War getting hotter as season wraps 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Guilt-wracked judges and bureaucrats began reserving good jobs for women and minorities at a moment of sky-high unemployment. Purpose and worth 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z After a two-hour boat ride and 20-minute hop by train, I arrived in downtown Geneva, now home to United Nations bureaucrats and bankers. Lake Geneva as Shelley and Byron Knew It 2011-05-27T19:00:27Z “The Mall doesn’t belong to the bureaucrats,” Weber says. The National Mall’s immortal reflection 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Mills, 73, is an ardent Brexiteer and needed little encouragement to air his views on Brussels bureaucrats. British Art Fairs: One Country, but Worlds Apart 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z And in “Decorator Malignin,” a bureaucrat doodled on the margins of documents during the endless, tedious meetings that made up his pointless working life. Ilya Kabakov, Soviet-Born Artist of Immersive Installations, Dies at 89 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z The story of America’s first bureaucrat is almost too good to be true. Patriotism on Broadway 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z It's a nightmare of bickering, competitive relatives, obstructive bureaucrats and unruly emotions. The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger – review 2012-08-09T07:00:02Z In the world of “The Wire,” everyone who’s not on top — police, drug dealer, bureaucrat — is in that basement, managing upward and hustling to find ways to keep Ronald McDonald happy. ‘The Wire’ Stands Alone 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z She says she wants to live in Jerusalem, but Israeli bureaucrats are not making life easy. Pope to visit a land of disappearing Christians 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z For pages, the author relates her struggle to pry the relevant raw data loose from initially unresponsive bureaucrats, detailing her frustration and mounting anger given the stakes. ‘What the Eyes Don’t See’ Review: Sounding Flint’s Siren 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Back home, thanks to his skill as a draftsman and his compulsive productivity, Kurt found success as a socialist realist, producing large-scale murals of heroic workers and peasants and portraits of bureaucrats. ‘Never Look Away’ Review: A Lush Adventure in Sex, Politics and Painting 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z The Minister of Culture, a gracious, impossibly handsome Milanese bureaucrat, had offered us special access to the exhibit after hours. A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z Where are the Brussels bureaucrats when you need them? Readers recommend: foreign language versions ? the results 2011-03-10T17:26:30Z But many of the play’s insights about the Chinese come through another key character, Xi Yan, a cagey, attractive bureaucrat whom Daniel falls for. Theater: David Henry Hwang?s ?Chinglish? 2011-10-23T03:27:21Z There was no one in Mosul to run any of the departments in the Nineveh governorate because all of the bureaucrats had been in the Baath party. 59 Tomahawks and 5,900 years of slaughter: A brief history of Syria 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Sinister bureaucrats come to mind, corporate sharks and dictators, crooked cops. Dungeons and Dragons: My dorky literary muse 2012-12-08T16:00:00Z Beltway bureaucrats are prone to using buzzwords to shade the truth. Memorial for America’s conscience 2012-05-24T20:20:00Z It was tough going—the bureaucrats in the State Department were against it. U.S. Pledge to Renew Cuba Ties Gets Hopeful Reaction From 'Buena Vista Social Club' Star 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z The movie portrays the Soviets as plucky underdogs held back by a lack of resources, scheming sports bureaucrats, and health problems. We are the champions: basketball film wows Russians before election 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z His quest, starting in 2007, called for impersonating a tree deliveryman, fleeing cockroaches, uncovering forged documents, coping with stonewalling bureaucrats and gathering eyewitness testimony of horrific political persecutions. ‘The Porcelain Thief’ Chronicles a Trip to Unearth Chinese Heirlooms 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Who wants public officials or government bureaucrats interfering in news, I always felt. Perspective | Congress may be about to help local news. It can’t happen soon enough. 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Having survived the long solo flight, and outwitted the bureaucrats of the British Empire, he spent the winter in Darjeeling. An Englishman’s Ill-Fated Quest to Climb the World’s Highest Mountain 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z “The film is dull,” offers the gormless government bureaucrat. Why Andrei Tarkovsky’s interminably dull 1979 sci-fi masterpiece “Stalker” is the movie we need right now 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z On social media, many also mourned the death of the city’s free-wheeling and edgy spirit, killed off, they said, by the likes of the EMA’s army of bureaucrats. 'Expats go home': Amsterdam's visitor boom angers locals 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z On cable we might also have received a police superintendent with the creased skin and poor muscle-to-fat ratio to actually look like a bureaucrat. Television Review: Stirring Chicago?s Corruption Stockpot 2011-02-06T20:30:11Z Mr. McGregor has a delicious role in Fred, a buttoned-up, unhappily married bureaucrat whose cold, nasty wife of two decades leaves him for months at a time to conduct business in other places. Movie Review: ?Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,? With Ewan McGregor 2012-03-08T23:10:43Z "Bowler hats, briefcases and faceless bureaucrats," as playwright Tom Basden suggests. Move over McIntyre: Kafka comics lead a standup revolution 2010-11-22T16:38:00Z Speaking to the camera, he’s an ambiguous character: a tough bureaucrat, possibly a reformer. Review: ‘Bolshoi Babylon,’ Russia’s Famed Ballet Troupe in a Scandal’s Glare 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Izgil and his wife watched her with pity as she came in and out of people’s apartments, clasping a binder, but felt a chill when she adopted the painstaking tone of a Communist bureaucrat. A Poet Captures the Terror of Life in an Authoritarian State 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z As played by the veteran baritone Jonathan Summers, Iago resembles a petty bureaucrat, a slight man with a military hat and simple leather jacket whose unassuming appearance exemplifies a kind of common evil. In Britain, Opera Season Opens With ‘Otello’ and ‘William Tell’ 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z This warmly comedic yet calmly analytical documentary, about a Romanian bureaucrat who wants to change the rules of soccer, subtly confronts the country’s political history. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z For so many languishing federal workers — public servants alternately characterized as deep state antagonists or bloated bureaucrats — it’s all too much. Trump’s government was a very bleak workplace for many. Then it shut down. 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The film-makers trot out a rogue’s gallery that would rival Batman’s, if Batman only fought bureaucrats in ill-fitting suits and wire-frame glasses. Making a Murderer: another blow to our confidence in America's police 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Critics said the name change reflects the aversion of arms control bureaucrats to the hard work of enforcing treaties and verifying compliance with existing agreements. House Republicans pan Biden’s outreach to Xi 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z That would allow him to reclassify masses of employees, with a particular focus, he has said, on “corrupt bureaucrats who have weaponized our justice system” and “corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus.” Trump’s plans if he returns to the White House include deportation raids, tariffs and mass firings 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z Across the country, bureaucrats have been mobilised to incentivise young people to get married, and for couples to stay married and have children. China's matchmaking mums have a powerful ally: The Party 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z These "Schedule F" positions were senior policymaking roles that had traditionally been filled by career government bureaucrats. What a Donald Trump second term would look like 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z It is unrealistic to expect bureaucrats, few of whom have any AI expertise, to figure out answers to these questions. U.S. must act fast to boost AI progress, security | Tyler Cowen 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z By contrast, He is seen as more of a bureaucrat. China's new economic tsar faces challenges emulating his predecessor 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z “We need a food czar who’s tough, not these namby-pamby bureaucrats that don’t really want to ruffle any feathers.” Bariatric Surgery at 16 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z The faceless bureaucrats who created this rule, and have put referees in an impossible position, have something to answer for. Who is a 'lovely footballer'? Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z “It’s time for Biden’s bubble bath bureaucrats to get back to work, or forfeit their expensive, unused office space,” the senator told The Times. Inspector general to investigate federal offices left vacant by telework policies 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z She claimed scientists are being “told by university bureaucrats that they cannot ask legitimate research questions about biological sex.” U.K. government vow to end ‘woke’ science draws rebuke from researchers 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z They accepted Solicitor General Tushar Mehta's proposal on behalf of the government to set up a committee, headed by the country's top bureaucrat, to consider "granting queer couples" rights and privileges available to heterosexual couples. India Supreme Court declines to legalise same-sex marriage 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Getting old is hard enough without having to box bureaucrats. Column: For drivers 70 and older, the road rage over DMV test questions continues 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z “The deference would increase to special interest groups and an executive branch who have longer-serving bureaucrats who, by the way, are unelected.” Feinstein's death reignites discussion about term limits 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z If he wins this time, he’ll bring a team of loyal aides who have been planning their return to power for months, and who intend to start by purging bureaucrats who stand in their way. Column: Trump has a second-term agenda, and it's more terrifying than ever 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z According to the remarks, DeSantis will "repeal Biden's EV mandates" and prevent "California and faceless bureaucrats from setting America's environmental standards." Republican hopeful DeSantis attacks EVs, emission goals in energy plan 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z “You can call up and get some bureaucrat on the phone. … People can cooperate or not cooperate.” Senator wants to reroute flights away from Southwest Boise, where he lives 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z “For the moment, it seems that the bureaucrats in Brussels don’t want to extend it,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a Friday radio interview. EU faces deadline on extending Ukrainian grain ban as countries threaten to pass their own 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z Ramaswamy shares the same mistrust of the “deep state,” a term popularized by Trump that contends, without evidence, that a network of unelected federal bureaucrats works clandestinely to thwart conservative policy objectives. White House hopeful Ramaswamy joins Trump in calling for huge government job cuts 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z While in office, Trump often railed against what he saw as a “deep state” of bureaucrats working against his administration’s priorities, but he did not carry out firings of rank-and-file employees. Vivek Ramaswamy proposes mass federal layoffs as more GOP hopefuls look to slash US government 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Leonard has said he believes that Americans know how to live their lives better than government bureaucrats and professional politicians do. Democrat Amo could be first person of color to represent Rhode Island in Congress after primary win 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z At least in this area of the country we encourage the spread of knowledge by individual choice, not ideology spewed by some narrow thinking bureaucrat. Books: ‘Encourage the spread of knowledge’ 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z The Gilded Age called, Kathy and Mike: They want their blowhard bureaucrats back. Column: 130 years ago, a Los Angeles tamale vendor was robbed. How times haven't changed 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z Trump has pledged to issue an executive order upon taking office that would let him fire “rogue” bureaucrats in protected civil-service positions deemed disloyal to the White House. White House hopeful Ramaswamy joins Trump in calling for huge government job cuts 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Co-founder Alan Miller says he’s no conspiracy theorist but that over all those issues the public feels “ignored and treated with contempt” by politicians and bureaucrats. London’s plan to charge drivers of polluting cars sparks protests and stirs political passions 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z Heritage officials have held in-depth discussions with DeSantis' team about restructuring the Justice Department, abolishing the Department of Education, firing thousands of mid-level bureaucrats and disentangling the U.S. from Ukraine, according to those people. Insight: Conservative think tank emerges as force behind DeSantis campaign 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z “Are you going to call the shots yourself? Are you going to be willing to lead? Or are you going to subcontract your office to health bureaucrats like Dr. Faucis?” he said. DeSantis’ retooled campaign rolls across Iowa with vows to clean up FBI, use deadly force on cartels 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z In Inglewood, a world away from bureaucrats and lobbyists, Robertson grieves and struggles as a single father. Was racism a factor in Centinela Hospital death? California is ill-equipped to investigate 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Acadia officials warned state bureaucrats about its financial situation in the spring, but it has offered few additional details about why it shuttered Cascade so abruptly. Washington buys closed Tukwila psychiatric hospital for nearly $30 million 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Familiar complaints about government waste or regulatory overreach are now replaced with claims that government agencies are targeting citizens and that bureaucrats are busy enacting political agendas. Mimicking Trump, G.O.P. Contenders Feed Voter Distrust in Institutions 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z On the trail, the governor makes frequent references to firing mid-level bureaucrats, which two senior Heritage officials said they considered lightly veiled references to the project. Insight: Conservative think tank emerges as force behind DeSantis campaign 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z As the yen renewed its fall in May, a handful of bureaucrats at the BOJ's elite monetary affairs department began brainstorming ideas on how to loosen the bank's grip on yields. Insight: BOJ makes bold shift as yen risks grow too big to ignore 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z The move’s immediate implications were that the Muslim-majority region is now run by bureaucrats with no democratic credentials and lost its flag, criminal code and constitution. India’s top court hearing petitions challenging government’s removal of Kashmir’s special status 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z They said they assured the bureaucrat reading the application it was a traditional Siberian name. Putin’s Crackdown Leaves Transgender Russians Bracing for Worse 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z “Pardon defendants of politicized prosecutions. Replace civil service protections with 8-year term limits. Punish bureaucrats who violate the law. Get aggressive.” Mimicking Trump, G.O.P. Contenders Feed Voter Distrust in Institutions 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z His plan also would promote vocational and apprenticeship programs that educate “artisans and engineers” instead of “politicized administrators and bureaucrats.” DeSantis unveils new economic policy that targets China, taxes and regulations 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z He said on Thursday that six rounds of talks had been held with representatives from Kukis and Meiteis, with retired bureaucrats and judges acting as interlocutors. Manipur video: Minister Amit Shah says CBI to investigate assault 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Critics argue Chevron is the stuff of Orwellian dystopias, siphoning massive amounts of political power away from Congress and the courts and turning it over to unelected, anonymous bureaucrats. Congress backs fishermen over feds in Supreme Court battle, tells justices to curb bureaucracy 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z She also signaled that she would lean into cultural issues motivating the Republican base, writing that she “will stand with parents, not bureaucrats, when it comes to deciding what is best for our children.” Kelly Ayotte Announces Run for Governor in New Hampshire 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z "India Office bureaucrats collected press clippings and swapped memoranda regarding her personal and financial affairs in an effort to control Duleep Singh's actions as a politicised member of the Indian diaspora in Britain," Baker writes. Sophia Duleep Singh: Indian princess who fought for women to vote in UK 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z “The reality is, Biden bureaucrats are pushing their out-of-touch agenda on the American people to compensate for their failed radical green agenda,” Ms. Ernst said. Joni Ernst seeks to ‘turn up the heat’ on Biden energy officials — literally 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z “While the FBI sought to obfuscate and redact, the American people can now read this document for themselves, without the filter of politicians or bureaucrats, thanks to brave and heroic whistleblowers,” Mr. Grassley said. FBI source: Hunter Biden was ‘stupid’ but Burisma paid him to keep Joe Biden involved 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Jordan Peterson, a Canadian psychologist and far-right pundit, tweeted to his 4 million followers that the 15-minute plan by “idiot tyrannical bureaucrats” was an extension of the so-called climate lockdowns, a conspiracy theory. A New Climate Conspiracy Theory Claims Traffic Control Is an Attack on Freedom 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z A cabal of unelected bureaucrats, often referred to as the Deep State, are attempting to amass total control over our country and stop you from having a voice in your own government. Trump's "Agenda 47" is no joke 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z A third of the top bureaucrats and police officers running the government in Imphal were Kukis, and left the city after the violence, a top government official, who preferred to remain unnamed, said. Manipur: Murders and mayhem tearing apart an Indian state 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z “I’m turning up the heat on the Biden administration to pull the plug on their ridiculous regulations and make Washington bureaucrats think twice before imposing arbitrary rules on Americans,” Ms. Ernst said. Joni Ernst seeks to ‘turn up the heat’ on Biden energy officials — literally 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z The practice of doxing as a form of intimidation has become increasingly common in the Netherlands in recent years, with first aid workers, police officers, politicians, journalists, scientists and bureaucrats all targeted. Dutch Senate votes to make 'doxing' a crime 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z “Bidenomics just means more government bureaucrats propped up by Democrats’ reckless spending that fuels the inflation crisis. Biden takes swipe at ‘junk’ insurance, medical fees in latest Bidenomics pitch 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z “They have no expertise and are bureaucrats, mainly skilled at waging bureaucratic warfare.” Former intel officials pan DNI report on virus that says origin in wild rather than government lab 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Constitution makes lawmakers the deciders of elections procedure, not state judges or bureaucrats. Supreme Court says state courts can review election law, rejects independent state legislator theory 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Tesla has been in talks with Indian bureaucrats and ministers as it looks to enter the domestic market. Modi in US: Elon Musk says Tesla to come to India 'as soon as possible' 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Executives of the U.S. automaker visited India and held talks with Indian bureaucrats and ministers last month on establishing a manufacturing base for cars, and also to make batteries in India. Musk to brief Modi on Tesla's India investment plans in U.S. meeting-source 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z So when Narendra Modi leads foreign dignitaries and bureaucrats in a session for International Yoga Day on Wednesday at the United Nations’ Secretariat in New York, millions of Indians will take note. Living la vida yoga: India’s Modi will bend leaders into shape on International Yoga Day 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Big Pharma claims through these lawsuits that it’s being “coerced” into bowing to price cuts mandated by unelected bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services for its most popular prescription drugs. Column: Merck says it's being 'coerced' into negotiating its drug prices with Medicare. That's nonsense 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z We really should be able to hold someone in that position to a higher standard than some faceless bureaucrat, many of whom have landed in jail for far less than what he's done. The legal dominoes finally start to fall against Trump 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Demesmaeker’s job, then, would seem ideal for a master bureaucrat, a multilingual charmer who could deftly navigate the political forces that want to push his project forward or swipe his budget. Can He Fix ‘Palace of Scaffolding’ in Time for Belgium’s 200th Birthday? 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z “Washington bureaucrats and the court system in our country continue to give us policies that can result in air quality like this.” Dangerously smokey skies engulf Washington lawmakers 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Government bureaucrats and officers have taken to social media to show themselves folding in different poses and sometimes tiredly grabbing their backs after mass outdoor yoga sessions. Living la vida yoga: India’s Modi will bend leaders into shape on International Yoga Day 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z “Instead, it creates a price-fixing regime a Soviet bureaucrat would be proud of. This slow-rolling government takeover of the pharmaceutical industry will strangle innovation, denying essential medicines to patients desperate for newer, more effective treatments.” Merck sues to stop Biden’s drug-negotiation program, calls it ‘extortion’ 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z “The regulatory regime has gone unchecked for decades and it’s time we return power to the American people, not the nameless, faceless bureaucrats in Washington,” Rep. Kat Cammack, Florida Republican, said. Congress to vote to save gas stoves, clamp down on Biden’s hyper-regulation 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z The politicians had their pitches, waltzing across a stage festooned with flags and stacked with hay bales to rail against “deep state” bureaucrats, “woke” corporations, and liberals indoctrinating and confusing America’s children. Republicans Gather in Iowa to Ride, Eat and Disagree 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z He is the head of the public service, which is made up of nonpartisan bureaucrats who stay in their jobs as politicians and political parties come and go. He’s the Biggest Power Broker in Canada Whom You’ve Never Heard Of 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z The problem is that those making the decisions here are keen to be seen to be imposing the Party's will more enthusiastically than rival bureaucrats. Beijing's comedy crackdown is hitting its music scene 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z “The department doesn’t need another bureaucrat and I hope Staycee fits the bill.” Bass names new head of troubled Animal Services department 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z His disposition is rosy, a levity that may stand in contrast to the prototypical image of a high-level bureaucrat. Hopes for a downtown Seattle streetcar find new life in Mayor Harrell 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z "Wagner is not a piece of slippery soap which the bureaucrats have got used to shoving all over the place; Wagner is an awl, a stiletto that you cannot hide," Prigozhin said. Mercenary Prigozhin says Kremlin blanking him on state media will provoke backlash 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z “We cannot allow Washington bureaucrats to drown servicemembers in paperwork and obscure rules while they are trying to heal and care for their families,” Mr. Mast said in a written statement to Inside the Beltway. Report from Federal Reserve shows economic well-being tanking 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The Old Kingdom united Egypt under a single ruling house, developed systems of record-keeping, and formed an all-important caste of scribes, the royal bureaucrats who mastered hieroglyphic writing. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, local positions in government were usually given to Han Chinese bureaucrats, but supervisory positions were given to Manchus. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z While the Polos were the most famous of these hostage bureaucrats, serving for about twenty years, most were Muslim traders from other parts of the Mongol Empire. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z "That high-level bureaucrats, those very towers of the Kremlin, are trying to shut the mouths of everyone so that they don't speak about Wagner will only give another shove to the people." Mercenary Prigozhin says Kremlin blanking him on state media will provoke backlash 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z It is a different matter for the bureaucrats, she said. As Ukrainian Attack Looms, Putin Faces Setbacks and Disunity in Russian Forces 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z He was replaced by Leonid Brezhnev, a lifelong communist bureaucrat. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z At the top was a ruling class of civil bureaucrats and military officials called the yangban, who ruled the country along with the king. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Regardless of how well they did their jobs, such bureaucrats were not likely to bond with the population and create a power base from which to challenge imperial authority. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z That might seem reassuring, except I suspect not every penny-pinching bureaucrat will agree on what’s a navigable waterway. Buried fees, cuts and some gems in Newsom's budget, and thankfully no major tax increase 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z He still works out daily and looks like the fighter he was and not the bureaucrat he became. California created the nation's only pension for aging boxers. But it's failing to deliver 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z To keep up with costs, Louis continued to entrust revenue collection to non-noble bureaucrats. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Chinese bureaucrats and army officers, disgusted with the corruption of the Ming government and its inability to respond to the country’s problems, began to defect to the Manchus in large numbers. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z As in the Two Sicilies, this resulted from a restructuring of local government so that royal bureaucrats replaced vassals and church officials, and the monarchy had sufficient income to pay for their loyalty. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The soft-mannered former bureaucrat has managed to unite Turkey’s fragmented and diverse opposition. A look at the candidates in Turkey’s presidential elections 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z The committee’s Republican chairman, Representative James Comer of Kentucky, said lawmakers “would continue to expose and investigate harmful E.S.G. practices and hold unelected bureaucrats accountable for pushing their interests on the American people.” How FTX Missed a Potentially Lucrative Opportunity 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z The middle classes that arose out of industrialization were the ranks of engineers, foremen, accountants, and bureaucrats that were in great demand for building, overseeing, and running new industrial and commercial operations. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In the first half of the twentieth century, the dominant political party in Japan was a fusion of Meiji oligarchs, government bureaucrats, and recruits from other political parties. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Below these two tiers was a class of many bureaucrats who helped manage the state. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Inflation provides a way out for the bureaucrats – taxing the people without their knowledge. You’ll be poor and like it 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z “There is no doubt the Biden administration is using every faceless bureaucrat at their disposal to push their extreme green agenda, and it needs to stop right now,” said Executive Director Daniel Turner. Manchin vows to oppose Biden EPA nominees over ‘radical climate agenda’ against power plants 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Some very lucky slaves who were educated ran businesses or served as bureaucrats, teachers, or accountants. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z YouTube took out ads in Toronto's subway decrying the bill, which they said would take power away from viewers and creators put it in the hands of bureaucrats. Bill C-11: Why is YouTube mad at Canada? 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z The Constitutions of Melfi increased the power of the monarch by replacing vassals and church officials with royal bureaucrats as local administrators and judges. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “Rather than say what the law is, we tell those who come before us to go ask a bureaucrat.” Supreme Court Takes Up Case That Could Curtail Agency Power to Regulate Business 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z To detractors, Chevron is the stuff of Orwellian dystopias, siphoning massive amounts of political power away from Congress and the courts and turning it over to unelected and anonymous bureaucrats. Supreme Court takes up case to review agency deference, potentially overrule Chevron 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z The Abbasid caliphs employed Persian bureaucrats and ruled in a manner similar to the earlier Persian Great Kings, although they did not adopt that title. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Why not, “Today, we need spoons in the kitchen, the dining room and in many other places”? Chat depends on canned phrases and writes like a bureaucrat: It is formal and officious. Opinion | The wizards of AI can’t give it a brain, or heart, or consciousness 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Land that had been given to soldiers and war widows was confiscated, and bureaucrats’ salaries were kept low. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The governor could appoint either California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, 74, or newly elected Controller Malia Cohen, 45, as a caretaker senator and temporarily place a bureaucrat in her basically ministerial job. Column: Newsom could face tough task replacing Feinstein in U.S. Senate 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z But there’s a sense that instead of investigating, learning and holding people accountable, bureaucrats and politicians simply shrug, say “oh, well” and put another levy on the ballot or raise taxes — again. Government: Accountability matters 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z First, the Janissaries slowly devolved from elite soldiers and bureaucrats to parasites, living in lavish “barracks” in Constantinople, manipulating weak sultans, and spending more time enriching themselves in commerce than serving the state. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sponsors and supporters of this bill have overstepped the constitution and case law in promoting this policy, which would allow state bureaucrats to hide minor children from custodial parents and legal guardians.” Washington bill to ‘hide’ children seeking gender transition, abortions from parents stokes alarm 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z The only way back up the social ladder was through merit, and many lower-level aristocrats proved themselves as eager bureaucrats in the service of new sovereigns. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z But in a message to lawmakers seeking cosponsors, the Republican authors of the Wisconsin bills stoked fears of “runaway state bureaucrats and excessive local governments” taking matters into their own hands to ban gas engines. Wisconsin lawmakers hope to outlaw local bans on gas engines 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z On the other hand, the idea of having people make their own spending decisions instead of being told what to do by government bureaucrats, should appeal to conservatives, said Mr. Kline. Money for nothing: Guaranteed income pilot programs multiply in liberal cities 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z Princes and other elites wanted skilled bureaucrats to staff their merchant empires; they needed literate men with a knowledge of law and mathematics, even if they themselves were not merchants. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z "The propaganda that Muslims are overtaking the Hindus is absurd," the former top bureaucrat said. India's birth control measures resonate among its Muslims, priests play a role 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Because most records from the Persian Empire focus on kings, wars, the military, and high-level officials and bureaucrats, we know little about commoners. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “Living” features an Oscar-nominated performance from Bill Nighy, playing a dying 1950s London bureaucrat who decides to spend his final days getting a children’s playground built. Review: Documentaries take intimate looks at musicians Jason Isbell and Lewis Capaldi 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Securing one means they can open the doors to their businesses and start making money, while simultaneously navigating a cannabis licensing process that even bureaucrats say is needlessly lengthy and expensive. Column: California's cannabis industry is broken. But here's how we can fix one part of it 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z The practical nature of humanistic education ensured that this new generation of bureaucrats was more efficient and effective than ever before. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z He urged them not to live "double lives" or turn into Church bureaucrats seeking promotions with perks and privileges, and not yearn for a past when the Church was more self-centred. Recovered pope washes feet of young inmates on Holy Thursday 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z The Seleucid and Ptolemaic dynasties both employed Greeks and Macedonians as soldiers and bureaucrats in their empires. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “While Phoenix bureaucrats have allowed developers to build a basketball arena, a ballpark, and apartments in flight paths, when Tempe attempts to do the same a manufactured crisis arrives.” Coyotes file $2.3 billion claim against Phoenix over arena 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z The bill sailed through its first Senate committee hearing last month, with dozens of business owners and bureaucrats and representatives of cannabis trade groups testifying in support. Column: California's cannabis industry is broken. But here's how we can fix one part of it 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Thus, this new breed of educated bureaucrat had to be good at their jobs, as they had no titles to fall back on. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Rogers and a bureaucrat had to meet in parks to break down their deal. The dramatic tale of how ‘Tetris’ became a phenomenon 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z All these were topics considered essential for a professional education, especially for a class of state bureaucrats known as “secretaries” whose job was to administer the empire and its people on behalf of the ruler. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The public education monopoly controlled by unions and bureaucrats marginalizes parents by rejecting transparency and preventing parents from having a significant say in their children’s education. Opinion | Glenn Youngkin was clear in his town hall 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump said he will oust “rogue bureaucrats” and “clean out all the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus.” Manhattan D.A. not yet coming to arrest Trump 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z The male members of the bourgeoisie were factory owners, clerks, commercial and state bureaucrats, journalists, doctors, lawyers, and everyone else who fell into that ambiguous class of “businessmen.” Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In Crawford’s reportage, the work of geologists, U.N. bureaucrats and junior professors takes on an otherworldly majesty. Review | Borders can be spaces of wonder — if you have the right passport 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z To consolidate his control over the empire, Emperor Wen created a powerful centralized government, with loyal bureaucrats appointed to rule its many territories. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The nitty-gritty process of reviewing and approving school textbooks has typically been an administrative affair, drawing the attention of education experts, publishing executives and state bureaucrats. Florida Scoured Math Textbooks for ‘Prohibited Topics.’ Next Up: Social Studies. 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z “If Democrats give unelected bureaucrats the authority to impose this new tax, they will be responsible for the shortages, rationing, gas lines and price spikes that come with it.” Newsom gives up call for lawmakers to cap oil industry profits 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z “If Democrats give unelected bureaucrats the authority to impose this new tax, they will be responsible for the shortages, rationing, gas lines and price spikes that come with it,” Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher said. California regulators could decide oil profits penalty 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z When Japan ended a decades-long ban on military exports in 2014, it did not spur industry growth because of corporate timidity and overly cautious bureaucrats, analysts say. Japan battles to persuade its big brands to join military buildout 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z “This means cutting funding for the woke and weaponized bureaucrats that received massive increases under the $1.7 trillion omnibus,” said Rep. Chip Roy, Texas Republican. House GOP weighs work requirements, spending redlines to balance budget 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z A career bureaucrat, Li was revealed as the pick for China's number two role in October when Xi unveiled a leadership line-up stacked with loyalists. Li Qiang, Xi confidant, takes reins as China's premier 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Unelected bureaucrats fashioning rules that serve in place of Congress passing laws are a top target of Rep. Thomas Massie, Kentucky Republican, the newly installed chairman of the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform and Antitrust Subcommittee. House antitrust panel taking aim at Big Government instead of Big Tech 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z As premier, Mr. Li will be China’s top bureaucrat, leading the country’s cabinet and wielding broad authority over economic policy. Here Are the Men Leading China for the Next Five Years 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Constitution makes them — not state judges or bureaucrats — the deciders over elections procedure. High court’s elections case on independent state legislature theory could ‘fall off the docket’ 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z |
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