CB loved it, every paperwork nightmare of it.

But it has created a paperwork nightmare.

It would be a paperwork nightmare.

For the rest of us, however, displacing cash with plastic cards would create a byzantine paperwork nightmare.

The proposed revision "was widely denounced by environmentalists as a disturbing retreat from habitat protection and a paperwork nightmare for agencies seeking to revive the 1,268 threatened and endangered plants and animals in the country, 186 of which are in California."

The paperwork nightmare started for Ms. Mayer when her oncologist switched hospitals.

Nonbanks, which largely do $200 billion a year in legitimate business, say they fear that the new reporting requirements could create a paperwork nightmare.

He added that looking into the background of each participant in the huge export programs - which can include farmers, exporters, shippers and banks - would create a paperwork nightmare.

But others say the law could create a paperwork nightmare and might increase discipline problems by keeping reluctant pupils in the classroom.

Then the paperwork nightmare began.