Definition of stovepiped | Bee Dictionary of English

A former Boston police chief, Bratton decentralized the stovepiped NYPD, put more cops on the street and did block-by-block crime analysis, deploying patrols to hot spots.
As President, he continues the practice; much undigested and conflicting intelligence from Panama was "stovepiped" straight to the Chief Executive and his top aides, bypassing .

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Peter Schoomaker in FCW.com
By failing to build on the assets we have, duplicating infrastructure and taking a stovepiped approach to research and development, I'm concerned that the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office would not tackle the problem but instead risk slowing down... Joe Lieberman http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lieberman&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGOIPwMWmBmG_bXFxt6Y1inBkJAzQ Washington Technology http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/26456-1.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHNOrXia3AfhehsIQq-vywkWutunQ Jun 20, 2005 95060 126319 stovepiped Investments in duplicative or stovepiped systems, or systems not in compliance with Army and Defense Department standards, will be terminated," Harvey and Schoomaker said in their memo.
President Bush in CBS News
On the subject of FBI and CIA failures to communicate intelligence related to al Qaeda prior to the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Bush said, "We were kind of stovepiped."

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