That means offloading some scut work to public clouds, while retaining internal policies around data quality.

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Kevin Macdonald, the director, displays a pleasant nostalgia for the scut work of newspaper reporting.

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It does much of the software scut work needed to make its processors useful, such as building compilers, debuggers, and drivers.

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He subsequently started a contracting business doing mine scut work and went on to buy low-producing gold mine shafts in 1994, turning them around using a lean management style.

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You should expect to do a certain amount of scut work, especially if you're interning in a glamorous business like theater or filmmaking, or in a profession that touches on the lives of celebrities.

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In the case of Northeast Utilities, Infosys got the strategic advice business while IBM got left with the scut work of moving the company's 2 million customer records from the old system to the new.

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What you'll often see is a group of undocumented immigrants doing scut work - doing sweeping up, carrying heavy stuff, setting up the machinery, working alongside either native-born or documented immigrants who are doing the higher-paid skilled work - carpenters, electricians, plumbers, that sort of thing.

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