"It's catch-up time, and unfortunately it is happening at exactly the wrong time, " says Moec.
It is disgraceful that our council did not make any contingency plans for a catch-up service during this time.
But if the call is one of those boring conference hoo-has, I prefer to catch up on my e-mail at the same time.
If you do that, however, it can be expedient to schedule some re-entry time to catch up on messages before you return to your desk.
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Apple Inc. and Twitter Inc. held discussions more than a year ago about Apple possibly making a strategic investment in the short-messaging service, at a time when many technology giants were playing catch-up in social media.
Still just a two man team, Larson and Forman have already pre-sold 600 units and now spend much of their time hand-assembling the boards to catch up with a mounting backlog of orders.
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But while NVIDIA has yet to roll out its full stack of 28nm cards, AMD is finding plenty of time to play catch-up.
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Whether this will give the Surface time to play catch-up - or whether some iPad users will stop using Office - remains to be seen.
Apple may not have ceded ground to the competition, and the iPhone 5 will almost certainly sell extremely well, but the fact is this time around Apple is playing catch-up to firms like Nokia and Samsung.
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Immunisation rates today are 85% and rising, and the government is running a catch-up programme for those who missed their jabs the first time round.
The catch-up contributions for workers over 50 clearly target women who have spent time out of the workforce.
The question is whether there's time for the once-pioneering BlackBerry to catch up to Apple's trend-setting iPhone and devices running Google's Android system.
As Mr Streiff pointed out this week, Airbus must also catch up with Boeing in product development, cutting its lead-time for new aircraft from seven to five years.
We talked all the time, but a lot of talking is just catch-up.
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