How to cut through bureaucratic thickets.

The great irony of the charge that the alliances would be too bureaucratic is that the moderate and conservative plans generally leave the current bureaucratic thicket unpruned and just add more complexity to it.

They have lived through a year of frustrations and delays clouded in a legal and bureaucratic thicket, a classic real estate story from hell.

He led the mayor slowly through the bureaucratic thicket that was his social security history.

Not one has been able to cut through the bureaucratic thicket to go into business.

More than 2,000 joint ventures have been registered so far in the Soviet Union, but because of the bureaucratic thicket they must hack through, only about 500 are up and running.

For whatever reason, according to the Administration, the doubts either came too late or were lost in the bureaucratic thicket.

But the women also spend several hours each week filing medical claim forms, resolving disputes with housing officials and hacking through the bureaucratic thickets that surround government entitlement programs.

Some people make their way through bureaucratic thickets by force of intellect.

But e-commerce presents a way to cut through the bureaucratic thicket.