Idiom
Red tape.
This is a negative term for the official paperwork and bureaucracy that we have to deal with.
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Coursera, one of the major U.S. education companies providing massive open online courses, known as MOOCs, seems to have run into some red tape in China.
Special rules were created to fast-track "ultra-mega power plants", among the largest in the world, with their own captive coal supply and exemptions from some red tape.
But since the planners cannot bear the idea that grubby industrialists should earn more than they do, chief-executive salaries remain fixed at no more than that of a government secretary.On the plus side, some red tape is to be cut.
One woman who wrote to him recently hoped he could cut through some red tape involving her late husband's worker's compensation payments, he said; another sought help in getting her autistic child into Camp Anchor, a Town of Hempstead recreation program in Lido Beach for children with disabilities.
Perhaps this ruling will cause the FAA to cut some red tape and do their job a bit quicker.
He has now returned to South Korea but is due to return to the UK this weekend after sorting out some red tape.
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Jones said he planned to discuss some "red-tape issues" with team officials.
The reason there aren't very many of them right now is not because of some red-tape holdup; it's because America's shale-gas bonanza only started to come online in 2008-9.
Of the four families who lost their children in the shooting, and who came from all over the country — "the East Coast, Canada, California," Sussman said, protective of their identities — two chose cremation, one chose to have the child's body shipped home, and one was in the process of doing the latter but had been delayed by "some red-tape stuff," Sussman said.
Independent of some red-tape organism, all of us develop our own definitions and self-images and myths and creation stories - everything we need to say, "This is me".
But thanks to some bureaucratic red tape, the idea of using government analysts was junked in favor of opening the market to the general public.
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