I'm sure the mind-numbing bureaucracy of filing a complaint to a feckless council was the first thing on Mr Omar's mind after being robbed.
A bureaucracy's files (i.e., its past records) provide it with organizational memory, thereby enabling it to follow precedent and standard operating procedures.
Pope's 21 years working for the British Ministry of Defense has taught him the way government bureaucracy works: "Files go missing all the time".
The local bureaucracy in North Waziristan ultimately processed the forms Ramazan Khan filed.
A review of more than 400 of the thousands of grievances and lawsuits filed in recent years shows elderly policyholders confronting unnecessary delays and overwhelming bureaucracies.
Bureaucracies are always blind because they convert the rich flow of personalities and events into crude notations that can be filed and collated.
But there are also fascinating glimpses into the daily reality of what was, after all, another bureaucracy, with a Lieutenant Reinhardt filing his "work plan" for the week of July 14 , 1986 written by hand on notebook paper.
You usually don't have to file a California Public Records Act request or break through government bureaucracy to get most of the stats counted during games.
More likely, however, Chilcot will stick to the sanitised bureaucracy of minutes and files from which the question of character is always entirely excised.
The rank and file of the bureaucracy was mediocre, but its numbers steadily increased, perhaps trebling in the first half of the century.
