But it is far-fetched to classify them as bureaucracy and tiers of administration.
As a federal country, Germany has three distinct tiers of administration – federal, state and municipal.
After subtracting money for special needs, buses, buildings, utilities, books, pencils and supplies, "you've got $260,000 left to pay a teacher -- that's what would happen if we got rid of all that bureaucracy and all those tiers of administration".
The Japanese medical system is organized into three tiers of administration: national, prefectural and municipal.
Given the tiers of administration levels in mainland China, including province, city, county, town, and village, we selected a city from each of the 4 provinces with mid-level gross domestic product per capita compared with other cities in the province and with an incidence of notifiable infectious diseases above the provincial average.
He packed the second tier of the administration with allies such as Paul Wolfowitz, Bill Luti and Stephen Hadley.
The appointment has so far drawn raves from many faculty members at Columbia, where the top tier of the administration has remained largely male and monochromatic despite an increasingly diverse student body.
Then from each sub-district we selected a union (the lowest tier of regional administration) randomly.
During selecting a rural area, we selected randomly a sub-district from the selected district (second lowest tier of regional administration).
