He doesn't bring good news: The problem is in the firmware of the display controller, but he adds that he's already talked to IBM, has arranged to have an address box sent to me so I can send the laptop in to Big Blue, and hands me a slip of paper with my IBM work order number on it.
When the order number appears on a screen, the customer picks up his food at the other end of the counter.
And our suppliers have probably added on the order of four times that number.
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It's a huge number, on the order of 5% a year, as calculated from the past 75 years of data by Ibbotson Associates, a research company.
Harland and Wolff said that while it was pursuing future business opportunities on a number of fronts in order to create a competitive company with a sustainable future, it had been "unable to secure sufficient firm workload to maintain current employment levels".
It probably won't be enough to change the minds of MCI's board, which likely had only entertained a bid from the struggling, number four regional phone company in order to attract attention and increase the pressure on number one carrier Verizon to make an offer.
Professor Derek Gallen said that some medical specialties would in future be taught on a reduced number of sites in order to deliver the appropriate training.
Not too long ago in light of the Rafalca story, the Romney Olympic dancing horse, I described the hoops that an individual has to jump through in order to post a negative number on a Form 1040.
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Given the first two bills are pretty chewy, I doubt there will be much time left for Mark Hendrick's International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill, still less for Barbara Keeley's Social Care (Local Sufficiency) and Identification of Carers Bill or Douglas Carswell's European Communities Act 1972 (Repeal) Bill, or the considerable number of other bills on the order paper.
After finding out that I was officially nominated, I only had a few weeks to get the required number of signatures in order to be on the ballot in the PA primary.
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The Treasury has slashed their number to around 200 in order to focus on what it calls the high-level policy outcomes for public services.
The auction houses have exacerbated this trend by cutting the number of sales in order to concentrate increasingly on the top end of the market.
Assured Guaranty also successfully argued for damages based on the estimated number of bad loans, rather than an order requiring the lender to take back specific mortgages that failed.
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Maynard insisted there was no significance in the decision to drop Ian Bell down the order to number eight - he will start day three on nought not out, with partner Paul Collingwood on one.
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After the fall of Gadhafi, Libya was left without a strong police force or unified military, and the new authorities had no option but to depend on former rebels and mushrooming number of militias to maintain law and order.
In order to achieve that they have to really focus on what moves the small number of voters who might make a difference.
The most probable outcome is that the courts will decide, on a number of possible technicalities, to annul the April 2nd vote, and order another one.
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The census, which was responsible for a number of the government jobs that are created on a monthly basis in order to take that census, were not part of the recovery.
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People can call Greyhound to order a ticket, using a PayNearMe card, read the operator the number on the card, then pay with cash at 7-11 to finalize the purchase of the ticket.
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In order to improve the experience of charging on a road trip, Tesla has done a number of things to help solve the problem of a (relatively) long stop time as well as the already high popularity of the Superchargers.
She punched a few buttons on the computer display of her cash register, electronically communicating our special order to the kitchen, and gave me a table stand with a number on it to identify us to the waiter responsible for serving the tables.
This has shown up in the decline in the number of individuals trying to reach the U.S. in order to pursue their dreams, along with a rising number of native born Americans on the dole.
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On a more general note, in order to be effective, a good access management practice has a number of characteristics.
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The number of schools that closed in Suffolk on Monday due to snow was "out of order", a county councillor said.
Additionally, in order to pare costs and share information effectively, Flaig is looking to dramatically cut back on the number of suppliers Iomega uses.
The Welsh Assembly has also called on the Department for Work and Pensions to allow them to buy a number of the factories in order to secure their future.
You browse a site to find an item, click on the purchase button, select the quantity, select the payment and delivery opens and get a order number, then wait until it arrives at the door.
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At a downtown Chicago McDonald's that doesn't yet have the screens to display order numbers, but is starting to implement dual-point ordering by calling out the number on the receipts, service was fast and friendly on a recent day.
But this does not stop an overwhelming number of students from paying an exorbitant amount of money or taking on huge amounts of debt in order to attend college.
We adjusted these counts of men and women living alone based on our estimates of the prevalence of single gay men and women in each ZCTA, in order to estimate the number of heterosexual single men and women living alone.
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