The big structural flaws in most economies, and the global economy, are not mended, so - unless this coming year's more benign economic conditions are exploited to accelerate the remediation - the recovery could very easily start to peter out towards the end of 2014.
When Skyler isn't mending a stab wound, he is sewing together pieces for his progressive menswear line NativeDanger, the illest thing to come out of our nation's capital since Bad Brains.
Hearts aren't mended in a day's time.
The shroud of despair, it seems, once torn, is not quickly mended.
But even this is not enough to mend relations with Pakistan because Modi cannot give Pakistan's generals what they seek: territorial concessions on Kashmir.
It needs to be ended, not mended.
"[The hospital] said [without the land] it would be a "make do and mend hospital", well for me, make do and mend is not good enough for Watford".
"There's probable cause to suspect that there were persons who had been aware of the dangerous weakening of the storage pond walls," Prime Minister Viktor Orban said, "but they thought, because of their private interests, that it was not worth mending them and hoped the disaster wouldn't happen".
In a statement to Reuters, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, said: "We heard of the incident but MEND is not involved at all.
But diagnosing rips in the country's fabric is not the same thing as mending them.
