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- Snarl at a bureaucracy
- Bureaucratic delays
- Business deal impeder
- Procedural obstacle
- Needlessly time-consuming procedure
- It used to be binding in government
- Bureaucracy problem
- Bureaucratic form-filling
- Bureaucratic tangle
- Procedural complication
- Too much paperwork, perhaps
- Bureaucratic nonsense
- Sign of a bureaucracy
- Time-consuming procedure
- Piles of paperwork, perhaps
- Symbol of bureaucracy
- Bureaucratic nightmare
- Frustrating procedure
- Bureaucratic snag
- Bureaucratic excess
- Bureaucratic rigmarole
- Obstacle to getting things done
- Bureaucratic annoyance
- Procedural annoyance
- Bureaucratic waste
- It's hard to cut through
- Procedural impediment
- Washington's forte?
- Administrative complications
- Much paperwork
- Bureaucratic sticking points
- Bureaucratic holdup
- Bureaucratic delay
- Bureaucratic hassle
- Bureaucratic ritual
- Bureaucratic snarl
- Paperwork, perhaps
- Bureaucracy
- Progress impediment
- Progress impeder
- Metaphorical obstacle
- What Civil War troop records were kept in
- Metaphor for official inefficiency
- Impediment to progress
- Metaphor for holdups
- Progress slower
- Cause of delays
- Excessive attention to routine in official doings.
- Unpopular Government product.
- Washington tanglefoot.
- A problem on Capitol Hill.
- Bureaucracy's "offspring."
- Official routine.
- Bane of bureaucracy.
- Symbol of official delay, inaction, etc.
- Official impedimenta.
- Symbol of delay.
- Bureaucratic problem.
- Bureaucratic procedure.
- Legal forms and more forms.
- Official routine and delay.
- Officialism.
- Official inefficiency.
- Symbol of delay or inaction.
- Bureaucratic specialty
- Bureaucratic finish line
- Impedimental officialese
- Bureaucratic impediment
- Bureaucratic routine
- Bureaucratic wrapping
- Complications
- Government bonds?
- Bureaucratic stuff
- Oval Office supplies?
- Barrier to progress
- Cause for delay
- Reason for a long delay in getting approval, maybe
- Delay cause
- Nice thing to cut through
- Bureaucratic hoops
- Some complications
- Excessive regulation
- Forms, forms and more forms
- Office binder?
- Business headache
- Bureaucratic busywork
- Hoops, so to speak
- Bothersome bureaucracy
- Administrative hassle
- Kafkaesque obstruction
- Bureaucratic pain
- Some busywork
- Bureaucratic runaround
- Civil service snarl
- Bureaucratic hurdle
- Sticky bureaucratic stuff?
- Excessive forms and such
- Excessive bureaucracy
- Bureaucratic formalities
- Bureaucratic headache
- Metaphor for bureaucracy
- Bureaucratic nuisance
- Excessive regulations, metaphorically
- Cause of many delays
- Bureaucratic obstacle
- Progress hinderer, at times
- Application filing nuisance
