Poland has attracted comparatively little foreign investment, and its own efforts at privatization of major industries have been mired in bureaucratic and legislative wrangling.

The officials said the failure to transfer more of the vaccine from military to civilian control was caused by legal and bureaucratic wrangling among government agencies.

Worse, Operation Swordfish provoked so much bureaucratic wrangling among the agencies involved in drug enforcement that its effectiveness was seriously compromised.

With long experience in Washington, the two are expert in the bureaucratic wrangling that often grips the capital.

To build a legal dwelling on former agricultural land would require 6 to 11 years of bureaucratic wrangling.

Efforts to do so have long been stymied by environmental concerns and bureaucratic wrangling.

But in the immediate aftermath of the attack on Saudi Arabia, there was no evidence of any bureaucratic wrangling.

It has triumphed in the bureaucratic wrangling over the Foreign Ministry and is widely believed to be expanding its spy networks abroad.

The search for the $10 billion to $15 billion Ellwood needed for training, jobs and child care bogged him down in months of bureaucratic wrangling.