Word: officialdom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem was the nature of Iraq's political structure. Saddam ran a ruthless, highly centralized regime. Says Richard Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs in the Reagan Administration: "The intelligence was limited, always has been, and still is today. The access to Iraqi officialdom and private citizens was extraordinarily limited." The U.S. had few intelligence assets within Iraq; as one American official says, analysts were reduced to "dealing with a welter of contradictory, fragmentary and incomplete information, and then trying to make sense out of that mess...
...days when foreign cars faced a nearly insuperable series of Japanese roadblocks between dock and dealer. The Japanese government's new open-door policy has lifted the discriminatory tax, insurance and inspection regulations that once hobbled sales. Some European car executives even speak of "positive discrimination" from an officialdom that is eager to appear receptive. For boosting imports, BMW has won an award from the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Says Peter Woods, president of Rover Japan Ltd.: "It's a great market, and we're all making massive progress...
...true, although it is hard to know how far Holzer's work succeeds in this agenda, there being no restaurant behind the U.S. pavilion. But short of building one, American cultural officialdom could not have been more obliging. The funding bodies, which included the National Endowment for the Arts, the U.S. Information Agency and the Rockefeller Foundation, paid to have her thoughts chiseled on benches and, in four languages (not always perfectly translated), on the marble plaques with which the pavilion floor is newly paved. Electronics mavens set them moving across giant LED screens on the walls. Not since Cecil...