1.   Armies of officials in government offices, banks, ports, airports and railway stations maintain a tangled bureaucratic system that makes even the former Soviet Union look efficient.

2.   But a new bureaucratic system may not be completely installed until years after that target date.

3.   But you have a bureaucratic system where people get ahead by not making mistakes.

4.   Old management and control techniques, supported and guided effectively by a bureaucratic system, have failed the country, and public anxiety is high.

5.   The answers seem to be found in the magnitude of the quake and the inefficiency of the Indian bureaucratic system.

6.   The tardy response seems to have resulted partly from the bureaucratic system and the consensus-style of management for which Japan is noted.

7.   But an insensitive bureaucratic system is getting in the way, they say.

8.   Corruption, rife in the bureaucratic system, will be done away with.

9.   It would also reduce rates and broaden deductions in an effort to rationalize the current inefficient bureaucratic system.

10.   Japan was portrayed as a country clearly on a down slope due to its vast and stagnating bureaucratic system, corruption and problems related to a stacking economy.