paper-pusher

Now imagine that the boss of this wreck is a weak-willed paper-pusher who abhors confrontations, and everyone knows he has a 70% chance of being fired at the end of the year.

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Collectively, we spend hundreds of thousands of hours in the woods-more than any paper-pusher in madison who is making these laws. anyone going to join me?

Deer populations are low 2009

So we didn't directly write the first script together, but he was sending us ideas in, and he came up with the idea of a guy who loves to be a paper-pusher, actually relishes it.

Will Ferrell, Adam McKay Celebrate 'The Other Guys' 2010

And it was sort of that idea, the idea that there's new types of heroes, and that's sort of a little bit what informed Will's character, a guy who loves, you know, being a paper-pusher, Allen Gamble.

Will Ferrell, Adam McKay Celebrate 'The Other Guys' 2010

But I was struck by seeing the Justice Department headquarters on the block because it reminded me of a funny thing that happened, forty years ago, during the Cold War, when I was working in Washington as a very junior CIA paper-pusher.

Richard H. Smith: Could a California Budget Fix Threaten National Security? Richard H. Smith 2010

GROSS: But if you were a cop, would you be one of those cops, one of the paper-pusher cops?

Will Ferrell, Adam McKay Celebrate 'The Other Guys' 2010

Prior to that he'd been an obscure CIA paper-pusher to whom no-one listened.

War Proponents Pollack and O'Hanlon: Let's Sustain Surge "Into 2008" 2009

Too busy, plus sad about being anonymous paper-pusher.

Pamela Redmond Satran: 25 Reasons Life Sucks When You're Middle-Aged 2009

So Mr. Blair will be a paper-pusher, in charge of making ever important reports to ever important Quartet, leaving non-negotiations to Ms. Rice.

Matthew Yglesias » Blair as Envoy 2007

Prior to that he'd been an obscure CIA paper-pusher to whom no-one listened.

All Three Cable Networks Describe O'Hanlon Or Pollack As War "Critics" 2009