Officialdom is reluctant to release the details which might answer that question for certain.
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Since the mid-1980s, officialdom's grip has gradually weakened, and the media have become bolder.
Many small firms operate under the radar of officialdom, dodging taxes and ignoring rules to survive.
While it is uncovering wrongdoing, American officialdom is divided acrimoniously over how to put things right.
After the Chairman's death, Chinese officialdom famously declared that he had been 70% correct.
The earthquake that hit Kobe in 1995 demonstrated in a practical way the shortcomings of officialdom.
Western companies in Russia find that buying power is strong and officialdom increasingly manageable.
Viewers agreed with him that he was hounded by officialdom, and crowds urged the rebel on.
Investors seem to be worried that the wrath of American officialdom will ruin BP.
But if officialdom has inched forward in the past 15 years, public opinion has taken giant strides.
That's despite all of European officialdom insisting that "private sector involvement" in bailouts will never happen again.
Two events this month betray the double standards with which Japanese officialdom treats China's rich and poor.
But that inconvenient fact has not deterred our officialdom from insisting that smokers stick to these useless products.
Although the Chinese Foreign Ministry immediately complained about his comments, Beijing's officialdom did not appear terribly worried.
The line from European officialdom is that Greece must repay this debt as foreseen by the bailout program.
Rather, the main risk is the disruption of personal relationships with Chinese officialdom.
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He is speaking to the emerging middle-class desire not to live under a cast of privileged and corrupt officialdom.
The anger of laid-off workers has long been one of officialdom's biggest worries.
And officialdom was expert in devising taxes that were easy to collect, even if they hurt production or exports.
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They often pay too little attention to local officialdom in China, he says.
Controversy concerning gay marriage would be between religious leaders and not involve officialdom.
It has also agreed to plentiful data-sharing with American officialdom, and that American armed marshals may fly on Czech flights.
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For that is the post's last residual market: the jury summonses, government forms and other nasty effluents of American officialdom.
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Now the clamour for consumer products containing an even more worrisome form of silver has eventually prompted officialdom to act.
Distrust of officialdom has become endemic in the quake zone - a fact that could prove harmful to all political parties.
Is it because of officialdom and bureaucracy become irksome after a time, and you want to get away from the trappings?
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Officialdom and the public alike have yet to that take on board.
Legal remedies apart, public pressure on officialdom can also produce useful results.
But years of benign neglect from officialdom have also taken their toll.
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Living standards are lower, the grip of corrupt officialdom stronger, violence more widespread, cynicism deeper than at any time since independence in 1991.
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