"Imagine someone would care so much as to restitch it himself?"

The charter commission should put its civic duty ahead of loyalty to Mr. Giuliani and stop trying to restitch city government on the fly.

"If something is worn out and doesn't need to be replaced, we can patch it or restitch it," Mr. Matera said.

"We'll restitch the handles and refinish the leather," said Mr. Moore, holding up a badly cracked, tooled-leather bag.

This could solve the difficulties and blood leaks caused when the surgeon tries to restitch the arteries that have been cut during a kidney or heart transplant.

Instead, they found a sofer, a master scribe, who spent three years using an ancient ink to restore the broken letters and the sinews of a bull's leg to restitch its torn parchment. '

The once-clear vinyl became so opaque that the blurs were blurry, and the canvas trim securing its zipper rotted so badly that there was no cloth left to restitch, much less hold the safety pins reinforcing the thread.

Tonight, workers were going to unstitch some of the cutouts, trim the edges of the padding and the turf on the corners, and restitch them so that the cutouts no longer bubbled at the edges, as some did today.

Weekly Standard , Feb. 22 (posted Tuesday, Feb. 23, 1999) The cover story asserts that Dan Quayle is a seasoned, ideologically consistent, genuinely religious candidate who could restitch the Reagan coalition of economic and social conservatives.

LEAD: Leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization say that after weeks of being squeezed between their Iraqi supporters and Saudi financiers in the Persian Gulf crisis, they have managed to restitch much of their Arab support.