Almost every apartment building in Manhattan has recycling bins, complete with sniffy bureaucratic instructions on their use.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein have announced changes in nearly every aspect of the school system, affecting everything from the bureaucratic structure to math instruction.
Obtaining a visa can be complicated by whether there is an issuing consulate or embassy in your area, by bureaucratic snarls, by user error (instructions must be followed exactly) and by a host of other factors.
Higher education is bureaucratic and complacent.
Regrettably, a bureaucratic ant colony succeeded in circumventing her instruction for several months.
In a system like Russia's, in which the institutions of the state function less according to immutable bureaucratic rules and more in response to instruction from above, "the most important thing is control," the investigator explained.
The specious and cowardly answer is because, by bureaucratic fiat in paragraph 2.15 of the Instruction, the Air Force has concluded that flag-folding ceremonies, regardless of where they are conducted and by whom they are conducted, are now "not official".
Or was it the next part of the president's response, when he goes bureaucratic, explaining his three-pronged set of instructions to his staff?
Teachers who for decades were shielded from the bureaucratic particulars of the public education system now find themselves overwhelmed with mandates to track grades electronically, administer frequent tests and analyze data to tailor instruction.
American education is overly bureaucratic.
