There's raw energy and distilled wisdom in lines such as "who passed through universities with sensual indulgence addicts devoted to the indefinite space of maps and science labs while the committees shifted paperwork".
Open flames can easily and quickly cause a fire if you or an employee shifts paperwork too close or the candle is forgotten and not extinguished before the employee leaves for the night.
He and they have been looking for fixes, such as shifting the paperwork needed to open a business onto the internet, or freeing firms from petty inspections.
He set up fast-changing firms with many fronts and names, providing air-logistics and weaponry to any client who could pay.He shifted the paperwork of his planes, at times in mid-flight, registering them in far-flung corners such as the African dictatorship of Equatorial Guinea.
"I was having to combine my boxing with shifts, long hours, paperwork, upsetting situations.
Beyond working with owners to fix cars, Shift also handles the paperwork involved in transferring the car from one owner to another.
With cuts in central administrative staff, the paperwork has "shifted... to the departments, [which] of course don't have any more staff to deal with the increased burden".
The proposal also calls for measures that would drive down the cost of services, like adoption of purchasing consortiums, and the streamlining of administrative requirements — among them, shifting much of the required paperwork for applicants to electronic filings.
Mr. Hopkins, the top lawyer for T. Rowe Price, says he sees no reason all the industry's intermediaries should not be subject to the rules and audits that the S.E.C. imposes on transfer agents, firms that handle the paperwork involved in shifting ownership of a security from one person to another.
But these temporary-reduction periods often drag on far longer than three months, as banks lose paperwork and offer shifting excuses.
