Under pressure from businesses seeking quick credit checks and bureaucrats who place efficiency above personal freedom, that prevention of privacy abuse was erased.
Should we welcome this development?The dominant argument for private prisons is that they will save taxpayers money, as for-profit owners have an incentive to seek efficiencies bureaucrats overseeing government institutions lack.
A U.S. Administration official said last week that while having a global footprint is desirable, "we cannot be in a position where U.S. taxpayer dollars are going to fund cash-flow problems at subsidiaries outside of the U.S". Forget global efficiency; with government bureaucrats calling the shots, it's all about protecting domestic jobs.
A U.S. administration official said last week that while having a global footprint is desireable, "we cannot be in a position where U.S. taxpayer dollars are going to fund cash flow problems at subsidiaries outside of the U.S". Forget global efficiency; with government bureaucrats calling the shots, it's all about protecting domestic jobs.
One Italian who has watched him for many years says he combines the assurance of a seasoned British aristocrat, gliding through the establishment, with a grand French bureaucrat's sharp and dutiful efficiency and the number-crunching thoroughness of a German Bundesbanker.
I expected a state bureaucrat with a certain grudging efficiency, the type who is impatient with anyone who doesn't already know the routine, to lead the ceremony with one eye on the clock.
Life is pretty easy in the Death Star, and most of us work at the level of efficiency for which Chinese bureaucrats are famous.
Many foreign companies are able to operate to higher standards of efficiency in Eastern Europe than trade unions or bureaucrats would allow at home.
It said requests for information on issues such as the availability of medicines or the workings of the health service "threaten the efficacy and efficiency [of] the public administration", by obliging bureaucrats to devote time and resources to them.
Russian bureaucrats behave very rationally: almost everywhere, the rewards for honesty and efficiency are tiny.
