Surgeons ended up padding the time of their operating room slots so they didn't wind up behind if a compound fracture repair went too long.

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"My first thought was they are padding to make their on-time ratings better, " he said.

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And despite padding out the action to a buttock-numbing running time with some unnecessary sentimental nonsense about Anderton's estranged family, he reminds us that few living directors can spin an escapist yarn quite as well as he does.

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Like most denizens of the legal profession, we were somehow both completely shocked and at the same time not at all shocked by the recent reporting on alleged bill-padding at the global law firm DLA Piper.

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