This can make it slow off the mark, particularly with its laborious decision-making structure.
Consequently, highway planning and projects prioritization have become even more laborious for decision-makers.
"In a franchise," she said, "it's a great feeling to wake up everyday being able to be creative, and knowing you can take action, versus going through some long, laborious process of decision making and bureaucracy".
As you read this, we'll be agonising over our decision - laborious work, just like floor-scrubbing, but someone has to do it.
The jury's decision was obviously a laborious one, following two years of a legal back-and-forth between the two tech giants.
Decision making is a laborious process of meeting after meeting to make sure everyone, from the cafeteria workers on up to the boss, is on board.
That was practically a sudden death decision, compared to the laborious hand-wringing in the selection of his predecessors: Paul Tagliabue was chosen after 12 ballots in 1989; and Pete Rozelle had to suffer through 23 ballots in 1960.
Despite the laborious and time consuming implications of the decision to use this procedure this was considered worthwhile by the team because it would allow for the development of emergent rather than imposed categories from the data.
Countries will want an early decision, but the UN's selection process is laborious.
He's a darling of in-the-know restaurant enthusiasts, his stature reflected in the decision of one prominent blog, New York magazine's Grub Street, to have him chronicle the laborious process of opening a restaurant for nine months before Tailor's debut in September.
