Word: bureaucrats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...associate dean at the University of Kansas School of Nursing in Kansas City, Conners is that rarest of all professionals, a bureaucrat who is also a successful innovator. She conceived the idea for the long-distance educational program, drummed up the seed money and shepherded the concept through countless meetings and strategy sessions. "I've always enjoyed thinking about new ways of doing things," Conners says. "Once we got started, the whole thing just kind of snowballed...
Across the Atlantic, the FBI waited. In Philadelphia a low-level bureaucrat named Richard DiBenedetto dangled, weightless with anticipation. For 16 years, across five countries, the Philadelphia district attorney's fugitive-and-extradition chief had hunted the man called Mallon with an obsession that would have impressed Captain Ahab. His name was not Eugene Mallon, as he had conned the French villagers into believing. Nor was he a British writer who had settled in remotest France for quiet inspiration. He was an American fugitive named Ira Einhorn, a man who had risen to fame during the late 1960s and early...
Liang has earned enough driving his cab to share purchase of a 10,000-yuan ($1,220) house with his father, a low-ranking city bureaucrat, but he worries constantly about financing his daughter's education now that the factory will not. "That costs me 300 yuan a month," he mutters, "plus extra for the English tutor." Liang is determined that his 11-year-old daughter will "never, never have anything to do with the factories." Somehow he's going to find the 40,000 yuan it will take to put her through high school and training as an accountant...
...roots representatives vote with their guts, she says, so "anyone who has tarnished his record or become disliked by the villages will be rejected." Her job on the county committee as an All China Women's Federation representative is appointive, but, she says, "if I were just an armchair bureaucrat, they'd laugh...
...integration with Russia, which in any case supplies Belarus with everything from cheap fuel to tractor parts. For his part, Yeltsin hopes that swallowing up Belarus and extending Russia's borders westward could provide a counterweight to a rapidly encroaching NATO. The new entity will be governed by a bureaucrat-bloated "Supreme Council" featuring the two presidents, their prime ministers, parliament heads and the chairman of a vaguely defined "Executive Committee." The deal fuels speculation that Lukashenko is seeking to use it to springboard him to the head of a restyled Soviet Union. But don't look for integration...