Mr Panetta will need to use his bureaucratic skills to compete with other agencies.
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Mr Brands does not give too much credence to the theory that its onset was somehow connected with the shame Roosevelt felt about his bureaucratic responsibility for a scandal involving the homosexual entrapment of sailors.
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It fell to Armitage to try to overturn or undermine those policies Powell opposed, in the interagency process, through leaks to the press (whose appreciation has been reflected in generally kid-glove treatment of the revelation of his role in the Plame affair), via back-channels with foreign governments and, not least, through attacks on his bureaucratic rivals.
His advisers waffle about bureaucratic belt-tightening and popular self-sacrifice.
More than his trademark toughness, Mr Holbrooke will need wiles to manage the intrigue in the region, and bureaucratic nous to hold his ground in Washington, DC.
On Wednesday, the US Senate approved General Gordon as security supremo, an appointment which has been held up by Democrats in a bureaucratic row over his exact role.
Tenet starts his tenure by attempting an old bureaucratic dodge: shooting the messenger who brings unwelcome news.
Mr Medvedev also enjoyed the full might of Russia's bureaucratic and media machine on his way to the top job.
His big selling point to investors: Bureaucratic interference, which tends to stall Indian public works, will be conspicuously absent from this project.
But fed up with bureaucratic hurdles, he packed up his collection and set sail for Venice.
Shah must navigate a bureaucratic thicket and battle mighty rivals like his starting ground, the NSE.
Buffenstein said his book did not even attempt to explain the bureaucratic and cumbersome process growers must endure to hire farm workers legally on H-2A visas.
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Local officials welcomed his plans, but that did nothing to lower the bureaucratic hurdles to starting a company.
Now PeoplePC is having a second road show of sorts, in which Grouf is making the case that his company has been misunderstood and that it is hampered by bureaucratic accounting rules.
His comments point to the gloomy mood in the economy due to bureaucratic red-tapism and slow policy reforms which observers blame for stalling numerous industrial projects and disenchanting foreign investors, leading to a slew of economic troubles such as high inflation and wide fiscal and current-account deficits.
To reach that conclusion he had to take his own safari through the Serengeti, looking for 30 years worth of bureaucratic records that would tell him how much time and effort the patrols were spending on finding poachers.
It required a bureaucratic struggle lasting several years before he managed to regain control over his file and land a good-paying job with a foreign firm in Beijing.
Or he could keep his pledge, and brand it a manipulator, while making sure that the bureaucratic procedure that would then follow did not lead to any actual retribution.
Mr Brown said achieving the target had been made more difficult because of the economic climate and because it aimed to "remove the bureaucratic distinctions between different categories of homeless people" and he restated his commitment to this.
But despite his patriotism and sincerity, Secretary Gates has embraced what might be called the standard bureaucratic response to fiscal challenges.
If the second attack, over visas, has been much more successful, it is in part Mr Fischer's own fault: he failed to see that problems with visa regulations, which he considered a lowly bureaucratic issue, could grow into a full-fledged political scandal endangering his political career.
But Bishop said his experience with the recovery funds has taught him to pick projects most likely to clear bureaucratic hurdles, not necessarily the ones that will create the most jobs.
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Three of his four rivals are party leaders who years ago reached an accommodation with the Kremlin, which uses bureaucratic hurdles to keep genuine opposition parties off the ballot.
Most recently, President Obama seized upon an ill-timed bureaucratic announcement regarding planned housing construction within Jerusalem's city limits as a pretext for having his administration serially denounce Israel.
His proposal has been greeted with resistance from administration officials who say new safeguards negate the need for a new bureaucratic operation.
Russia needs to sort out tax, legal and bureaucratic problems that hold up projects, although progress is being made now that President Vladimir Putin has put his prime minister on the case.
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