Andrews is burying himself in work--like patching up the knee of Sacramento Kings star Chris Webber.
In New Orleans, they're tearing down moldy sheetrock, clearing out festering carpets, patching up roofs.
But Dempster says its increasing adoption hasn't led to the patching of old bugs.
Carl Patching, transition and transformation manager for Serco, said the closure was proposed last year.
Workmen are busily patching up the neighbouring buildings and repainting markings on the newly resurfaced road.
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They are responsible for patching up, rebuilding, stripe-painting, putting up signs and, most winters, ploughing snow.
Despite New Labour's revolutionary talk, these days the work is all sordid accountancy, and patching.
Chatter, 40, now works on patching his device into Lucent's optical interface to create an optical on-ramp.
Here Apple is in charge of patching Java, not Oracle, and this is where the problems begin.
He promises clients secure customisable services that spare them IT drudgery like maintaining servers and patching software.
CellCrypt makes software for encrypting mobile phone conversations, patching the security flaw that Hulton and Muller's research has uncovered.
Patching up the tower, healing Scarlett, Golden Boy, and Dark Hero had taken a real toll on my system.
Those problems - he says - can't be tackled with short term patching up of the existing ageing infrastructure.
And Millner has a head start on patching things up with the farmers.
Patching up foreign ties and reconciliation with the aggrieved Tamils are the most important tasks facing Sri Lanka's rulers.
The report also ranked software companies according to their record of patching known security vulnerabilities in the software they sell.
The White House does appear to have made some progress in patching up damaged relations with the powerful Turkish military.
But now, forty years later, he's reached the top, patching his company together with number two U.S. long distance company MCI.
"Patching and mending" the system was no longer acceptable, he told MPs, warning that failure to act now was "dangerous" and "short-sighted".
Patching up Iraq has been slower and more difficult than anyone imagined.
These days, most of the cash goes towards patching up crumbling stock.
Compared to some previous jailbreaks, Apple took its time in patching evasi0n.
On the other hand, patching together a new government will not be easy, and may take time that Turkey can ill afford.
That day, Obie mixed mortar and began patching the first-floor exterior wall.
In any event, patching up the political system will not be easy.
By most accounts engineers did a heroic job of patching things up.
Secunia, the premier vulnerability research company announced an integration with Microsoft WSUS, making patching of critical vulnerabilities possible in quick and painless fashion.
An equally big stumbling block to patching up relations with others will be the fraught question of who will run a post-Saddam Iraq.
And there's also the possibility of patching over Live to allow for more games down the road is that something that's being looked at?
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Mr Ford acknowledged that his firm had lost its way in recent years and was busy patching damaged relationships with its employees and suppliers.
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