pencil pusher

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pencil pusher

A derogatory term for a low-level bureaucrat—e.g., in an academic centre, hospital, regulatory or reimbursement agency.

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On a recent day, as Tirado and Nelson joked about being pencil pushers now stuck in an office and reminisced about their time in the field and how they served in the academy together, they listened as the crackle of Tirado's radio brought the device to life.

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boymolloy VVMOST of these racecourses are run by accountants and pencil pushers, hence pricey drinks and bad food.

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The research found that students who multitasked on their laptops performed significantly worse than the pencil pushers, and their effect even reached to students sitting near the laptop users.

'Pencil pushers' better learners than laptop-using students

Heather Brown wrote: "I'm sure most people with disabilities are sick to the back teeth of being told by pencil pushers what's best for them.

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Hmm and now we're wishing for the next study to come our way to be on the squares in the officeC*the pencil pushers can't all be goody two-shoes right?

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It's the code name I gave these government pencil pushers long ago.

In my line of work

As Congress decides whether astronauts and the rest of us will be rejected by insurance company drones or government pencil pushers, we can imagine the following scenario:

Out of this world debate

When they designed the current-generation Civic, the Japanese pencil pushers left the soft, boring lines of its predecessor behind and went for broke.

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But chances are, even if this year's increases are due to changes in how pencil pushers push their pencils, the number of women dying in and around childbirth is even higher than the CDC's most recent report indicates.

No country for mothers

That would satisfy the pencil pushers and let a true football man get on with improving the team, while he could also take a crash course to get the qualifications over time if need be.

Mark Lawrenson: Toshack is ideal. . . and I know he wants the job

He doesn't have enough square feet in his laboratory to accommodate 17 pencil pushers," Fishbein told SCIENCE NEWS, "never mind finding the money for their salaries.

Of Rats, Mice, and Birds

Currently there are over 30 professional tax programs; the leading products are: Arthur Andersen's A-Plustax, CCH Computax's Prosystem FX, CLR Fast-Tax and Pencil Pushers.