Shlegel, like all other Russians — officials or civilians — operate in a vertical in an easily paralyzed system where everyone is waiting for a command from the next level up.
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"They regard the Putin regime as hyper-efficient, contrary to the hesitant democratic and sometimes incompetent and paralyzed systems in their own countries".
The $200 billion program comes close to being a government bank, highlighting the extent to which Washington has been obliged to step in for the paralyzed banking system.
They seemed to be on the job everywhere -- in helicopters in the skies, underground in the paralyzed subway system, and on the streets.
Suddenly, the chaotic image of panicked New Yorkers and a paralyzed transit system must have popped into his head, because he interrupted himself and said, "This is still probably a rare occurrence and people shouldn't stop riding the subway".
If Americans want to remain on top, they will have to fight for that position, making some painful changes in the process (including, Brzezinski says, to a dysfunctional, paralyzed political system).
ROME, Oct. 15 — Rome's popular mayor, Walter Veltroni, took the reins of a new political party on Monday, claiming a strong mandate to change the nation's paralyzed political system after some 3.4 million Italians voted Sunday in the first election to choose a party leader.
There's our creaking infrastructure (compare the Shanghai and New York airports, or the rail connections that get you there); our paralyzed education system, where that war against science was fought; and our generally inverted values, which leave us with too many bankers betting on each other's bets and too many lawyers deposing other lawyers.
Friedman, a columnist for The New York Times, and Mandelbaum, a foreign policy expert at Johns Hopkins, catalog the ways America has stumbled (creaking infrastructure, paralyzed education system) and warn that the country's position abroad cannot endure without a renewal of its domestic sources of prosperity and strength.
Rebel officials in Doha say Qatari banks are helping facilitate international money transfers in rebel-held areas to recapitalize the paralyzed banking system, though they won't say which banks.
