Bureaucracy

Urban and Married Life, With Tickets

Steve Ettlinger | Posted 12.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Bureaucracy, Recycling, Marriage, Relationships, New York City, Violation, City Sanitation, City Buraeucracy, Department of Sanitation, Tickets, Court Summons, Recycling Rules, Living News
Steve Ettlinger

Here, for posterity, is our story of a recent confrontation with the city bureaucracy. TO: New York City Department of Santitation RE: Summons No...

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No Time Left...For You!

Deane Waldman | Posted 12.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Bureaucracy, Efficiency, Value Chain Analysis, Healthcare, Healthcare Regulations, Living News
Deane Waldman

I saw five patients this morning. I checked 35 boxes on various pieces of paper; wrote some type of diagnosis or classification 25 times; and printed...

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Japanese Pension Scandal Linked To Series Of Knife Attacks

Washington Post | Blaine Harden and Akiko Yamamoto | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Foreign Affairs, Bureaucracy, Pensions, Japan Stabbings, Japan, Business News

TOKYO, Nov. 19 -- Bureaucrats here have infuriated the Japanese public by losing millions of government pension records. This week someone with a knif...

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I Got The Boot

Leslie Goldman | Posted 08.14.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Police Caught, Boot, Car, Ticket, Chicago, Denver, Bureaucracy, Cars, Parking Laws, Chicago News
Leslie Goldman

My trusty Mercury never got towed, as I parked within the dotted lines. I lived a life of smug bootlessness. Until last week.

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World Economic Hangover

John Feffer | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hangover, G8, Wto, Officious Language, World Trade Organization, Poor Writing, Writing, Bureaucracy, Politics News
John Feffer

My hands tremble when I open a document from the World Trade Organization. The language is either boring, technical, or obscure. But when I figure out what the documents are saying, I feel even worse.

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The Fierce Urgency of How

William Fisher | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bureaucracy, Obama, Governance, Media, Clinton, 2008 Campaign Debates, Politics News
William Fisher

Having forsworn ever watching another so-called debate for fear of dying from Trivialitis, I fear I will once again find myself hunkered down in front of my television to watch the candidates swap one-liners.

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Troops Die While Bureaucrats Blunder: The Fight Against Red Tape

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Va, Military, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iava, Department of Defense, Bureaucracy, Walter Reed, Iraq Veterans, Veterans, Politics News
Paul Rieckhoff

Time and time again, we've seen troops and veterans suffering at the hands of an inept government bureaucracy. Well, here we go again.

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Bureaucracy for the Ages

Candy Spelling | Posted 10.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bureaucracy, Jules Romains, 1945, Reader's Digest, Nostalgia, The Way Things Were, Soviet Union, Politics News
Candy Spelling

A Reader's Digest from 1945 was a fun read, but the nostalgia and amusement ended when I arrived at "Bureaucrats at the Multiplication Table."

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