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.
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.
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.
Patching up foreign ties and reconciliation with the aggrieved Tamils are the most important tasks facing Sri Lanka's rulers.
The White House does appear to have made some progress in patching up damaged relations with the powerful Turkish military.
Patching up Iraq has been slower and more difficult than anyone imagined.
These days, most of the cash goes towards patching up crumbling stock.
In any event, patching up the political system will not be easy.
An equally big stumbling block to patching up relations with others will be the fraught question of who will run a post-Saddam Iraq.
It has been patching up relations with Lebanon, which has opened the door to renewed contacts with the United States and European Union, especially France.
There is no sign of the parties patching up their differences.
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"Mutual trust and a professional relationship between the two" were the words put forward by the committee in announcing the patching up of the pair'd differences.
The world's major economic powers have come a step nearer patching up differences on environmental policy which prompted the humiliating collapse of key talks in November.
Some iPad owners may be patching up their devices themselves.
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If we don't bring schools up to scratch now, we will be condemning pupils to poor and unsuitable conditions and be forced to spend millions more on patching up classrooms as they crumble.
Much of his time was spent on the fraught process of creating women bishops, and patching up disputes about homosexuality, in the Church of England, and in the 38 autonomous churches that make up the Anglican Communion.
Whereas someone like Bloomberg in New York seems to genuinely care about improving school performance, Walker is much more interested in breaking up the power of the public sector unions, slashing taxes, and promoting business interests in Wisconsin, even though the unions have agreed to work with Walker in patching up the state budget.
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And Millner has a head start on patching things up with the farmers.
By most accounts engineers did a heroic job of patching things up.
Maybe Kickstarter represents the first step toward patching things up.
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Whatever the truth in these two cases, it is evident that there has been abuse of detainees in Misrata, the French organisation Medecins Sans Frontiers withdrew its staff from the city's jails last month, saying they had treated more than 100 torture victims, and could not carry on with the business of patching people up so their interrogations might continue.
His operation requires relatively simple fixes to get back to that level--replacing stolen pumps and motors, and patching pipelines thought to be blown up by Saddam's men.
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