Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Love Our British Bureaucratic Cousins

One of the pleasures of reading things from outside the U.S. is coming across turns of phrase. For example, I'm reading a report on the British equivalent of FSA and come across this, well buried within the bureaucratese:
"Changes have been made in the governance of RPA since this review was launched. The Ownership Board has been replaced by a Strategic Advisory Board and a separate, temporary Oversight Group established. The new arrangements are still bedding down but, with other arrangements in place in the agency itself, are aimed at clarifying responsibilities which had become blurred in the 05-06 period. [emphasis added]"
Arrangements are bedding down--love it. [I realize only a true-blue bureaucrat would get pleasure from such reading, and only a weirdo would appreciate the idiom, but that's me.]

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