paper shuffling

After some mumbling and paper shuffling, about 80 percent of the students flipped their placards, signaling a thumbs-up on globalization.

It was a bit of paper shuffling that radically lowered their tax bills without reducing their income.

Army specialist, lost his security clearance, stripping him of his job in aircraft and vehicle supply and relegating him to paper shuffling.

Many such books appear then disappear, subsumed into the endless paper shuffling of the academic credentialing process.

The company’s most recent innovation was its conversion into a holding company in July, a nugatory restructuring that has virtually no impact on shareholders, customers, or anyone else, except perhaps for the investment bankers and lawyers collecting fees for the paper shuffling.