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  1. List of paraphrases for "red-tape":

    bureaucracy, bureaucratic

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  1. Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.:

    Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.

  2. Michelle Wineberg:

    I would never tell someone not to go to college. But you really need a whole village to navigate the system. It's a struggle to get through all the red tape and the paperwork.

  3. The NRF David French:

    These regulations are full of false promises. Most of the people impacted by this change will not see any additional pay. Instead, this sudden and extraordinary increase will mean more red tape and fewer advancement opportunities for salaried professionals.

  4. Kathleen Sgamma:

    Sometimes you hear politicians who talk about that but you wonder if they will have people in place who understand how to effectively cut through the red tape, i did not expect that the Trump administration would be fairly sophisticated in countering that and willing to do so quickly in the first 100 hundred days.

  5. Berin Szoka:

    Yet broadband deployment remains unnecessarily difficult because of red tape, high fees and poor infrastructure planning at all levels of government, fixing that could bring faster, cheaper broadband to millions of Americans, especially in rural areas.

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