Participants also ward off evil during the festival by bathing in flower-scented water, wearing five-colour silk, hanging plants such as moxa and calamus over their doors, and pasting paper cut-outs in their windows.
This bust-up was to be about the UK Government's Green Paper - a consultation in other words - on how the proposed cut to the number of Westminster seats in Wales from 40 to 30 should impact on the way AMs are elected in future.
GPs, incentives for retiring ones to stay on, and measures to cut doctors' paper-work.
Lately, however, the infractions have been piling up, and the very most recent may be too clear-cut for the paper to gloss over.
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His "micro-cut" technology reduced paper to 4-by-10-millimeter shreds, which looked small enough to thwart anyone who might have the patience to try to glue all the pieces back together.
Then, about 200 men walk the route wearing half- to full-metre-tall paper bishop hats, lit from within by candles and cut with intricate, stained glass window-like designs featuring Saint Nicholas.
It is made of black and white rice paper and sewn into the bodice are laser-cut buttons.
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Which is why I go through them box by box, paper by paper, and run them through my cross-cut shredder so that they forever disappear from the universe of useable data.
The trick was to cut small quantities of meat into paper-thin slices, season them with condiments, preserves, and spices, add whatever vegetables you could grow or barter, and keep adding until you arrived at a dish so tasty that you forgot how little meat was in it.
Engineers designed the dies on paper, and skilled craftsmen used hand-operated machinery to cut the die from a hunk of steel.
The mounting concerns about overnight interbank rates and the commercial-paper market have led many investors to argue that the Fed should cut rates to restore calm.
Over in print media, Janet Robinson , chief executive of The New York Times Co. (nyse: NYT - news - people ), plans to shrink the width of its flagship paper and cut 250 jobs in the face of a dismal profit picture.
Where paper-shufflers and parts makers were doing the same job for different models, systems are being unified and jobs cut.
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