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.

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To begin, the health fund through my union started to suffer (read: go bankrupt), so they began upping the number of weeks a performer had to work in order to qualify for insurance benefits.

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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.

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"In a week, we probably do somewhere in the order of 500 operations, which is a relatively small number in terms of the work that we do, " he said.

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The exemption covers those athletes who are visiting the UK in order to compete in the Olympic Games and a limited number of people who are visiting the UK to work on Games-related activity.

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