"bureaucratics"
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Mon Aug 27 17:03:12 UTC 2007
OED lacks an entry for this, but that didn't stop a Fox News commentator from using it this morning. He explained that "Even in wars that proved successful, like World War II, there was [governmental] in-fighting, cat-fighting, bureaucratics, and so on."
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JL
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