21.   A curious tack that was, coming from conservatives who typically balk whenever local control is threatened by sweeping regulation and state bureaucracy.

22.   A state bureaucracy helps evaluate jobs based on what knowledge, skill, effort, and responsibility they require.

23.   A young mother and her child go hungry because the state bureaucracy dawdles in establishing paternity.

24.   After the wall crumbled, Coke set up joint ventures and built plants while Pepsi was mired in partnerships with stodgy state bureaucracies and crumbling facilities.

25.   Businessmen too are disillusioned with slowdowns in the once aggressive reforms, lingering state bureaucracies and ongoing corruption, particularly in the judicial system.

26.   Business people also credit Gov. Christie Whitman with making the state more business friendly, by providing help to companies and making the state bureaucracy easier to deal with.

27.   Friday, Pataki is expected to announce another round of appointments, which may round off the top level of the state bureaucracy.

28.   How to reassert central control in the face of public revulsion of corrupt or intrusive state bureaucracy?

29.   In addition, Cellucci inspires affection among those working under him, which may enable him to boost the morale of the state bureaucracy.

30.   In speech after speech on his accomplishments during the past year, Gov. George Pataki talks of his steps to reduce the state bureaucracy.