For all its faults, the present system works: cabinet ministers requiring additional resources compete for them against colleagues.
As the system now works, cabinet positions get portioned out to confessional power blocs, which then horse trade over which bloc gets which ministries.
And above a built-in desk and work cabinets galore are her framed embroideries.
Special advisers working for cabinet ministers would mainly focus on giving policy advice.
Faced with what some experts say is a hundred-year flood that would challenge any leader, Ms. Yingluck is a political novice working with cabinet members she does not know well.
He will be the government's "lead non-executive director", working with cabinet ministers to appoint people to improve efficiency in each department.
A friend, Michael Bailey, 60, an out-of-work cabinet maker from Marietta, Georgia, said he sometimes slept on subway trains, to keep warm.
But love is certainly the appropriate word – Forrest describes a horse she is about to have a lesson on: "She was also beautiful, the glossy black of a lacquer-work cabinet, polished and nourished till the highlights of her coat were white under the barn light".
If the layout is basically working and the cabinets are in good shape, there should be no need to replace the whole structure.
Those egalitarian Swedes ReprintsJerzy Buzek, the beleaguered prime minister, in a move that confounded many constitutionalists (not to mention Mr Kwasniewski), then refused to accept the resignations, and the ministers have continued to "work in cabinet" to resolve the crisis.
