Word: bureaucrats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dislodging inept managers. To Carl Icahn, the typical chief executive is merely "a nice guy, a good drinking buddy." Sir James Goldsmith, a feared acquisitor who gained control of the Crown Zellerbach paper company last summer, told Congress that he has freed firms from "the dead hand of the bureaucrat" who produced only "complacency, ossification and decline...
Stories begin in 1984 about Debt growing to $2 trillion. Scared to death. Back on the Debt trail. Second assistant secretary now home from Japan. He referred me to an office across 15th Street that is part of Treasury. Found a genial bureaucrat there, the kind we love to kick around. Turned out he was the first guy with a real clue. He explained that the Bureau of the Public Debt is a huge department with 2,000 employees and a $200 million budget. I asked him which one of those people actually writes down the National Debt...
...task for a "careless attitude." The General Secretary noted sarcastically that Fyodorov had promised "that he would rectify his shortcomings. But evidently he does not keep his promises." The party Central Committee, Gorbachev declared, "has given instructions that the matter should be thoroughly investigated." Few doubted that the veteran bureaucrat was being invited to consider clearing out his ministerial desk...
MORE THAN AN attack on these suppositions, however, Backfire is an indictment of the bureaucratic culture that actually involved the United States in the Vietnam War, and its conduct throughout the decade of massive American involvement. Baritz is an academic-turned-university bureaucrat, and he explains Vietnam policy as the ultimate example of technocracy gone wild. The men at the top-first Kennedy then Johnson and Nixon--had a vision of Vietnam that existed in spite of reality. The men below them, from defense secretaries to platform commanders, had to provide Upstairs with what it wanted to hear. The trait...
...former Nicaraguan bureaucrat, Bayardo Payan, 28, said last week that he had been a government accountant during Brody's four-month fact-finding tour and personally arranged payment of roughly $2,000 to cover Brody's food, transportation and lodging expenses. Payan also charged that witnesses - interviewed by Brody were "manipulated peasants" whose testimony was sometimes edited to remove any pro-contra sentiments. According to Payan, Brody often displayed a photograph of himself hugging President Daniel Ortega Saavedra and called Ronald Reagan a "fascist...