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paper chase

A task that involves completing and/or going through a lot of paperwork. After getting married and buying a house, doing my taxes has become a real paper chase.

See also: chase, paper

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See "Ending the paper chase," Progressive Grocer, May 1994, page 143.

UCC adopts codes

Mondays through Thursdays; the rest of the time Gruntorad is on a free-market-style paper chase, trying to raise the money to expand Libri's collection (which he estimates now contains about two-thirds of the titles in existence), to protect the works from deterioration caused by heat, humidity, insects, and Prague's permeating host of air pollutants and to collect audio- and videotape oral histories to document human- and civil-rights violations under the communist regime.

Prague's library of banned books

He was chasing down dinosaur remains in west texas--a hunt he perform to the paper chase.

Revamping peer review: the National Science Foundation will allow more peering into its reviews

based, Paper Chase, full-service printing firm has taken over the building at 10 Chamber Drive in Town and Country Industrial Park in Washington, firm also possesses Signs360 and Inkspillers and foster would be migrating all of those operations into the same facility.

United States : PAPER CHASE takes 10 Chamber Drive in Washington

But the 23-year-old defender, who has signed a three-year-deal, has revealed his Celtic debut is on hold while he embarks on a paper chase.

Permit hitch holds up Efe Celtic debut

GIVEAWAY Captain Trilby SHEER CLASS Dress AND THEY'RE OFF A couple of streakers run across course, top, before police step in, above LOST COURSE Bizarre outfit PAPER CHASE Girl by Mirror stand ALL WHITE Going with the flow IT'S TIPPLE CHASE One girl sips drink OUT IN FRONT Beauty's skimpy top GREAT FORM Shapely racegoer yesterday AINTREE SWEET?

Hot to trot; LEGGY FILLIES STAR IN AINTREE OPENER

LEE CLARK is fed up playing paper chase and desperate for a proper game of football at Bristol Rovers tomorrow.

CLARK'S MADE TO WAIT; Bristol match 'in balance'

Blackmore obtained a vehicle keepers record from the DVLA and a paper chase was created to hide the deception.

Ex-RL player sentenced for insurance scam

Blackmore obtained a V5 - the vehicle keepers record -from the DVLA and a paper chase was created to hide the deception.

Ex-rugby player took part in BMW fraud

He went on to work on more than 30 motion pictures as an art director or production designer, including "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," "The Bishop's Wife," "Wait Until Dark," "The Subject Was Roses," "Klute," "1776," "The Paper Chase," "The Parallax View," "Funny Lady," "Comes a Horseman," "Starting Over" and "Sophie's Choice.

George Jenkins

Examples of programs that were intensely popular among smaller viewing groups, and thus faced cancellation on commercial television, include Lawrence Welk among elder viewers, Dark Shadows among teenagers, Star Trek among science fiction fans, The Waltons among nostalgic idealists, and Dick Cavett or Paper Chase among intellectuals.

25 years ago in reason

Paper chase uses Abba's Money, Money, Money, but this album has new delights.

ALBUMS

An exhaustive investigation and an international paper chase led to Stanley.

Cigs scam boss guilty

They are also hoping to complete the paper chase that has prevented tough enforcer John Craighead from flying in from Canada to join the team.