"The humans have to do a bunch of paperwork to prove the machine is wrong.
At issue (and one gathers this as much from Wallace's notes, appended to the text, as from the narrative itself) is an intra-service fight over increasing automation, and the question of whether the IRS should be an organisation in which morally competent human beings enforce civic virtue, or just a money-making business in which machines process paperwork for maximum revenue.
In the 1972 cycle, Iowa moved its caucuses to January, in part because Democratic officials there needed time between precinct caucuses and their state convention in May to print paperwork on an old mimeograph machine.
After wrapping up the paperwork, they packed up the machines and set off once more down the winding road.
The drug agency, in turn, decided that the inspectors would monitor only the X-ray machines and basic paperwork: Was the delicate equipment properly set?
How good is your company at taking a pile of raw materials, a bunch of machines, stacks of paperwork, and groups of employees, and turning out useful goods or services?
What you need is enough good information to enable you to determine how well your company is taking a pile of raw materials, a bunch of machines, stacks of paperwork, and groups of employees, and turning out useful goods or services.
Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork.
The Bernabeu club came within minutes of signing De Gea, only for a broken fax machine to prevent the required paperwork from being sent.
They carried two sets of voting machines, a thick sheaf of paperwork and utility items, like a bucket and battery-operated lamp.
