In one tactic, quietly known in the industry as "paper transactions," recyclers buy paperwork to indicate that they collected a certain amount of electronic waste that they never actually collected.
A handful of incidents was reported nationwide, including vote-buying, paperwork foul-ups, intimidation and the shooting of two Libre Party poll workers.
Even when those are paid, local authorities send thugs out to get more".They make you buy new paperwork," one trucker says.
His firm, an Australian timber importer, used to rely on masses of paperwork when buying merbau, a pricey hardwood from Indonesia.
If you've ever seen the paperwork involved in buying something like a house, you know full well that nobody is clearing the paperwork for an international nuclear reactor deal in just a couple months.
So I bought my ordination paperwork from the Universal Life Church ($24.99) and took a trip to the Marriage Bureau at 141 Worth Street in Manhattan.
The family of a Kurdish asylum seeker who died in a truck in Austria in August said Heresh Dindar, had been easily able to buy fake Syrian paperwork in Zakho, an Iraqi city close to the Turkish border.
Nor is real estate all that liquid, although technology will eventually help streamline the medieval paperwork associated with buying and selling.
For instance, Toyota owners can receive online repair and service estimates, features likely to increase that more profitable business, and much of the cumbersome paperwork associated with buying a car here can be completed in advance over the Web.
It seems like a generally paperwork-free process, buying a baby off a man in the street.
Realtors who work with foreclosed properties also are more aware of the additional paperwork that comes with buying a foreclosed home.
