1.   Because all the control lay with a central bureaucracy-the local housing authority-residents were powerless to enforce standards of behavior or evict criminals.

2.   Government has reduced the burden of regulation and the need for central bureaucracy.

3.   The central bureaucracy was embryonic and his provincial officials were spread wafer-thin and proved very difficult to supervise.

4.   Mr Birt himself has stressed his desire to transfer support services out from the central bureaucracy in London.

5.   But they also lose the routine services of the central bureaucracies.

6.   Cortines said the other cuts would come from the central bureaucracy, though he said he does not yet know how.

7.   Crew has also shaken up the central bureaucracy at Board of Education headquarters, displacing long-term insiders who had consolidated their power as chancellors came and went.

8.   He promised to make the budget easy to understand, and vowed to examine every job in the central bureaucracy unrelated to teaching.

9.   The law stripped much of the power and money from a highly politicized central bureaucracy and redistributed it to every school through local school councils.