At small firms, many employees tend to work a variety of tasks, such as answering customer questions, mopping floors and setting up displays.
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"I didn't know at that point I was a millionaire and so I was mopping up, although I would have done that anyway, " said Mrs Palmer.
It was not clear whether that activity represented "mopping up and checking" or "something more active" being carried out by Algerian forces against the abductors, the official told CNN.
Brad Haddin gave Tendulkar his 100th catch in Tests with a tame drive straight to mid-on off Mishra and Harbhajan continued the mopping-up process when Shane Watson edged a square cut.
"It might sound ridiculous, but people do pull muscles and strain things by mopping the floor, because it is intense, " says Jay Roper, a leader of the team of volleyball moppers from Sheffield.
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The White House could also urge Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve to get more serious about fighting inflation by mopping up some of the excess liquidity that he and predecessor Alan Greenspan spawned.
Use liquid from boiling noodles on pot plants and recycle bath wa ter for mopping the floor.
After the flood, the mopping up is long and painful but things do get back to normal eventually.
Prodded by the United States, Mr Hashimoto has agreed to ditch Japan's present austerity programme and go on a spending spree, stimulating domestic consumption in order to do its share in mopping up exports from troubled Indonesia, Thailand and South Korea.
"I have met some people who have been helping to get traffic through deep standing water, and some who have spent the night mopping up because the water came over their front door steps in South Cerney, " he said.
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Livingston midfielder Guillermo Amor, making his first start for the West Lothian side, was having a quiet time and the former Barcelona star was mostly involved in mopping up loose balls at the edge of the home side's box.
He learnt acting while mopping the stage at a local theatre in Dundee and watching actors rehearsing.
The regulations were laid as part of the mopping up exercise following the passage of the Health and Social Care Act.
The trial tested a new chemo combination aimed at mopping up remaining tumor cells by giving patients the two drugs in wide use and adding a third, Pharmacia's Camptosar.
He aims to boost sales by 800, 000 over the next few years, thereby mopping up spare capacity, avoiding the need for politically-painful job cuts and restoring Renault's thin profit margins.
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