Ms. Sabol said she ran into bureaucratic confusion almost immediately.

Thus they will again become clients of white power, buffeted by good intentions, cultural ignorance and bureaucratic confusion.

But there is bureaucratic confusion, not unfamiliar in Italy.

Some economists say the trouble is less a lack of hard currency than bureaucratic confusion.

Some officials say the failure to provide the information could be an oversight or the result of bureaucratic confusion.

Still, the cost system remains a sea of bureaucratic confusion for hospitals.

State Department officials expect the bureaucratic confusion to persist until some time after a permanent government, scheduled to be elected today, takes office.

What if plausible deniability and bureaucratic confusion aren't the reasons the president was misled?

At the state level, it said, the regulatory effort is hamstrung by bureaucratic confusion, minimal standards and insufficient staff.

Some travelers say bureaucratic confusion and rudeness drive them to the expediters.