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Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.
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It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
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James Boren
Born:
December 10, 1925
Died:
April 24, 2010
(aged 84)
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James "Jim" Boren was an American who is best known as a humorist and writer on bureaucratese, in which he poked fun at what he called "the vacuumental thinking and idiotoxicities of Washington".
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