This means that the citizens have the unfamiliar task of sorting things out for themselves.

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Wheatley's most pressing task is sorting through the wreckage left by the bankruptcy of New York securities firm Lehman Brothers Holdings.

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If you have finance skills and plan to volunteer at a soup kitchen, he says, one hour of your time is worth significantly more for the organization if you spend it helping with budgeting rather than doing a manual task like sorting cans.

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Add to that the enormous task of merging Digital Equipment Corp. into Compaq and sorting out the resulting 68, 000-employee roster, and it's little wonder that Capellas' predecessor, Eckhard Pfeiffer, was shown the door.

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