We see this as a bureaucratic device for them to use NATO assets without American participation in military decisions.
The colonial census was a bureaucratic device which provided an essential abstraction from social reality, a 'statistical fix' designed to map individual social groups in space.
Some online commentators have contended that these posthumous awards serve as bureaucratic blocking devices to conceal corruption.
The only thing is that it is out of date and bureaucratic; the monitoring devices are easily manipulated, and the checks are not free of discrimination.
Everything from our kitchen appliances and medical devices to our legal codes and bureaucratic structures are, in a word, kluges.
Once again, formal methods, in this case example, were considered to be too bureaucratic, time consuming, and not applicable given the device and development scenario.
When American soldiers were killed in Iraq by improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, it was the slow, bureaucratic, centralised nature of the Department of Defense that failed them, says Rafe Sagarin, a marine ecologist at the University of Arizona.
You see, while the F.A.A. is no longer ignoring the devices, it could very well entwine them in the kind of bureaucratic red tape only Washington can invent.
Within the past 6 months, an authoritative figure, Sanjay Gupta, published a book [ 12] that chronicled recovery from near death; a patient diagnosed in persistent vegetative state is now allegedly using assistive communication devices, and a poorly managed recommendation regarding mammogram protocols reinforced societal disdain for bureaucratic regulation.
