"This is a classic case study in bureaucratic bungling," he said yesterday.

He called the case a classic example of "bureaucratic bungling."

The Interior Department's inspector general called the matter "a jaw-dropping example of bureaucratic bungling."

But between politics and bureaucratic bungling, it was becoming clear that the $33 million school would open this fall without a memorial in place.

They speculated that the case was a result of either brazen theft or bureaucratic bungling.

State confidentiality laws forbid officials to talk about child-abuse cases, providing handy cover for bureaucratic bungling.

Pay to park: Are residents angry at bureaucratic bungling - or just with the loss of free street parking?

But they will have a hard time proving their case, for they are victims less of bureaucratic bungling than of powerful market forces.

The slow progress by the Federal Bureau of Investigation may be due in part to bureaucratic bungling.

The author presents the dramatic tale as a metaphor for Soviet bureaucratic bungling.