11.   Yet this time powerful bureaucrats who want government to stop interfering with the economy strongly oppose goosing the stock market.

12.   Another factor that might dampen the possibility of major reforms is that politicians have for decades left much of the decision-making to the powerful bureaucrats.

13.   Another factor that might dampen the possibility of major reforms is that politicians for decades have left much of the decision-making to the powerful bureaucrats.

14.   At a news conference following his speech, Mondale also urged Japan to change the way its powerful bureaucrats retire.

15.   Other senior officers act as powerful bureaucrats.

16.   Powerful bureaucrats have resisted cutbacks at these corporations, which provide jobs to many of them after their retirement from government ministries.

17.   The oldest university in Japan, it is the alma mater of many Japanese business leaders and powerful bureaucrats but it has sometimes been criticized as elitist.

18.   The popular Tanaka took office in April and immediately irked the powerful bureaucrats at the Foreign Ministry.