Forty years ago, a 29-year-old Foreign Service officer had a plan for a sweeping reorganization of America's sprawling, hierarchical national security bureaucracy.

四十年前，一位年仅29岁的外交官计划对美国混乱且官僚化国家安全部门进行彻底整顿。

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Also testifying today was the head of Pandora, whose service is sweeping America.

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We all seek smarter ways to find the most relevant information for our work and life so filtering messy amounts of big data will continue to be a popular kind of business service that will force sweeping changes in most all markets and professions.

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For all these sweeping intentions, the competence of the civil service is more routinely judged on how well it avoids expensive disasters.

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