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- What Civil War troop records were kept in
- Washington's forte?
- Unnecessary regulations
- Time-consuming procedure
- Sticky bureaucratic stuff?
- Procedural obstacle
- Procedural delay cause
- Procedural annoyance
- Official routine
- Obstacle to getting things done
- Needlessly time-consuming procedures
- Metaphorical obstacle
- Metaphor for official inefficiency
- Metaphor for bureaucracy
- It's hard to cut through
- Hoops, so to speak
- Forms, forms and more forms
- Excessive regulation
- Excessive forms and such
- Excessive bureaucracy
- Civil service snarl
- Cause of many delays
- Cause of delays
- Business deal impeder
- Bureaucratic waste
- Bureaucratic specialty
- Bureaucratic restrictions
- Bureaucratic requirements
- Bureaucratic nightmare
- Bureaucratic hurdle
- Bureaucratic headache
- Bureaucratic hassle: 2 wds
- Bureaucratic hassle
- Bureaucratic form-filling
- Bureaucratic finish line
- Bureaucratic busywork
- Bureaucracy problem
- Administrative complications
- A problem on Capitol Hill
- Government bonds?
- Bureaucratic stuff
- Bureaucratic problem
- Oval Office supplies?
- Barrier to progress
- Bureaucratic tangle
- Cause for delay
- Reason for a long delay in getting approval, maybe
- Delay cause
- Nice thing to cut through
- Bureaucratic hoops
- Bureaucracy's "offspring."
- Some complications
- Bureaucratic delays
- Bureaucratic wrapping
- Complications
- Bureaucratic impediment
- Bureaucratic routine
- Bureaucratic procedures
- Impedimental officialese
- Formalities progressively reduced, with two parts switched
- Bureaucratic delay (2 wds.)
- Time-consuming bureaucracy
- Much paperwork
- Bureaucratic rigmarole
- Bureaucratic nuisance
- Bureaucratic delay
- Progress impediment
- Bureaucratic snarl
- Bureaucratic annoyance
- Progress impeder
- Piles of paperwork, perhaps
- Bureaucratic runaround
- Symbol of bureaucracy
- Progress slower
- Procedural impediment
- Bureaucratic holdup
- Bureaucratic formalities
- Bureaucrat's delight