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We're in the middle of having a new kitchen installed. As part of the remodel we knocked down a couple of walls. The house has hardwood floors throughout yet the contractor did not put
anything down to protect the floor(!!) when they did the demolition. No surprise then that there are scratches and a couple of gouges on the floor. We're not happy. How to approach this? What rights do we have?
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at 3:25 PM on July 11, 2008
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My company system has an application that uses Oracle Text for querying large text fields in a natural query language -- I'm a big fan. Oracle Text supports the use of structured thesauri for queries too. This works well but I'm not sure what the best way to implement this is.
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at 6:46 AM on June 9, 2008
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My company has the following leave policy: If you take a week's vacation and then, the following week are ill without returning to work (Mon & Tue say), the extra days will be deducted from your vacation / holiday balance rather than your sick leave. Is this legal? (This is for both UK and USA offices so responses from either side of the Atlantic invited.)
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at 1:07 PM on January 7, 2008
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I have to travel to Johannesburg for 3 weeks on business so I thought I'd check our corporate travel / life insurance. I'm covered for $20,000 which I consider way below par. I need business travel life insurance options.
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at 9:25 AM on October 11, 2007
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We just sold our house and moved out. I dismounted my front and rear surround speakers from the ceiling and packed them up. The realtor called to apologise for not going through this properly but I have to give them back. Recourse?
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at 11:11 AM on February 2, 2007
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I'm moving from the Big D to mile high D: Dallas to Denver. I'm intending to buy a place but in the interim want to find a reasonably priced - preferrably furnished - apartment. Read more
posted to Ask Metafilter by NailsTheCat
at 10:45 AM on January 7, 2007
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Enron execs are being charged with '31 counts of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading and lying to auditors' (BBC). This seems to cover the loss of pensions and investors' stakes but what about their manipulation of electricity prices in California -- swindling old grannies and perhaps (indirectly) causing loss of life. Are they on trial for this? Was it illegal? What gives?
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at 4:19 PM on May 2, 2006
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