Mr. Kelley got into the business of buying them and converting them for other uses, leasing them out to businesses like furniture and paper processing.

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Hutchison said she was told that the soldiers at the readiness facility "were filling out paper processing to go to Iraq or Afghanistan, " according to CNN affiliate KXAN in Austin, Texas.

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In New Zealand Scion Research works to convert the waste stream from pulp and paper processing into a blend of microbial cell wall debris and plastic called polyhydroxyalkanoate, or PHA. Plant a PHA flower pot into the ground and and it biodegrades.

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India has long since turned itself into the world's back-office subjecting paper-processing hubs such as Kansas City to the same forces of competition that devastated former industrial cities such as Gary, Indiana.

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The insurance company can work on processing paper better.

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German insurance provider ERGO has built an in-house app for iPhone that thousands of agents use to process insurance claims, which has significantly reduced paper work and improved processing time and customer satisfaction.

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That means, as of today, the IRS will begin accepting e-filed returns and processing the old fashioned paper ones.

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On Tuesday, floor traders wound up the day processing orders manually, using paper, pencil and in some cases white board to keep track of buy and sell orders, instead of using the electronic trading system that is supposed to be the show-piece of the hybrid model.

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Paper.li originally aimed to solve the problem of processing the never-ending stream of links posted on Twitter, letting you customize the content with hashtags and Twitter users whose links you like the most.

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So far, most have been costly paper-weights or glorified typewriters, running Japanese word-processing software.

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Of course, if you deal with the IRS on a regular basis, you know that using a paper app is the kiss of death: be prepared to wait four to six weeks for processing.

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