Word: paperworks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paperwork Burdens...
...growing watch-and-wait mood among investors, who are nervous about the economy and Viet Nam, unquestionably contributed to the lower volume. For the straining back-office staffs who have been putting in grueling hours to overcome the paperwork logjam, that was just as well. A seven-man committee of industry leaders reported that since shortened hours went into effect Jan. 22, there has been a "substantial" reduction in the number of delivery failures among brokers. Such "fails" generally occur because brokers are unable to obtain stock certificates within the five-day period (raised last month from four days) allotted...
...video-type screen so that the clerk can proofread it before pushing the "transmit" button. Best of all, the data is fed directly into a computer that automatically relays it to the proper branch office. The system thus eliminates one of the most time-consuming aspects of back-office paperwork: matching buy and sell reports from exchanges with each customer's original order and passing the word along to the salesman...
...weave like badger warrens. The bastion of America's military establishment not only houses the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a mint of high brass, but is also a beehive of bureaucracy where some 10,800 civilians shuffle routinely through the daily load of paperwork. It is actually five giant buildings, concentrically interconnected and braced one upon another...
...real difference, however, is one of attitude. Yael came to Ayeleth to escape the drudgery of military paperwork and its 9 to 5 day, but now she wants to leave. She has found the endless routine of physical labor as oppressive as office work--and less instructive...