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bureaucracies

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Has the office served its purpose, or has it lingered one bureaucracy layered on top of a bunch of other bureaucracies, as some critics foresaw?

From Slate Jun. 15, 2026

It is a long process that often involves contending with local bureaucracies and dueling with community opposition.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

But organized grassroots movements have the power to challenge these lethal bureaucracies, whether at home or abroad.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 3, 2025

Committees and bureaucracies can limit AI, but they cannot create meaningful value.

From MarketWatch Nov. 6, 2025

Still a third type of answer to Yali invokes the supposed importance of lowland river valleys in dry climates, where highly productive agriculture depended on large-scale irrigation systems that in turn required centralized bureaucracies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond