Word: patching
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From the moment I punch in or step into a warehouse, I feel as if I have entered the Tower of Babel: nothing makes sense. For instance, when my foreman tells me to "cut the grass down thar between that patch of goober weeds and them stink weeds," I am at a complete loss...
Twenty minutes later, surveying the massacred patch of flowers, he hits me with the inevitable line: "You go to HARVARD and you don't know the difference between goober weeds and stink weeds?!!! Gawwwwdamn...
Seventy-six trombones and 110 cornets may be all very well, but they aren't a patch on 550 flutists. The instrumentalists, who were attending the 14th Annual Flute Convention in New York City, gathered in the plaza at Lincoln Center one morning last week for a "flute-in"; they included teachers from Kentucky, flute- makers from Connecticut and Suzuki-method pupils from California. As cameras focused in for the Today show, diminutive Irish Pied Piper James Galway led the rows of virtuosos in Danny Boy, then John Denver's Annie's Song, which a Galway recording has popularized...
...authority for the City of London authorized the construction of 20 million sq. ft. in new office space, nearly one-third of the existing total. Just outside the City, one of the largest new financial projects is planned for Canary Wharf, a $4 billion development on the once desolate patch of Thames dockland known as the Isle of Dogs...
...OPEC somehow sticks to its agreement and prices keep rising, heavily indebted petroleum-producing nations like Mexico and Venezuela would clearly enjoy a boon. The production cut would also help the oil-patch states in the U.S., which felt the pinch as the price of Texas-grade oil fell from about $27 per bbl. in January to a low of $9.75 in April. Consumers, though, would face more expensive heating oil and gasoline, and if prices continue to climb, the increase could rekindle inflation and eventually weaken the world economy...