paper shuffler
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Hero Brad is a paper shuffler at SHAEF, and a first lieutenant.
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There isn't a month that goes by that some paper shuffler like me doesn't inquire, 'How're you coming along?'
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Although some critics, including a number of top military men, dismiss him as "a good paper shuffler" and as Kissinger's errand boy within the White House, Scowcroft is hardly an automaton.
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If Chernenko's thoughts have ever differed from Brezhnev's on any issue, he has kept quiet about it; one Western diplomat in Moscow refers to him as Brezhnev's "paper shuffler."
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