71.   The new regulations cut some of red tape for building permits and gives local authorities more authority to prevent bureaucratic delay in dealing with the aftermath of flood.

72.   The process is less profitable for the auctioneers and the farmers, and created huge embarrassments when the culling program suffered countless bureaucratic delays last spring.

73.   The slaughter program has turned into a P.R. disaster for the Conservative government as bureaucratic delays kept postponing the killing.

74.   The United Nations and other Western aid agencies have accused Macedonia of using bureaucratic delays to slow the influx of both refugees and aid.

75.   The U.N. aid operation got off to a very slow start because of bureaucratic delays and disagreements with Russian authorities.

76.   The U.N. relief operation, which got off to a slow start because of bureaucratic delays and Russian obstructions, has picked up strength in the past few weeks.

77.   The U.N. relief operation got off to a slow start because of bureaucratic delays and Russian obstructions, but has picked up strength in the past few weeks.

78.   The United Nations and other Western aid agencies, for their part, have accused Macedonia of using bureaucratic delays to slow the influx of both refugees and aid.

79.   U.N. aid agencies have accused Macedonia of using bureaucratic delays to slow the influx of both refugees and aid.

80.   UNHCR has complained bureaucratic delays and security problems are making it hard to build enough camps for a mass exodus.