If Greece is to get itself out of trouble, fixing the public finances is only the beginning.
"What's not to like?" The Ku Klux Klan have terrible trouble fixing their hoods, which is a very funny scene, but also, in 1858, ahead of its time.
Consumers who have trouble fixing errors through the dispute process can quickly find themselves trapped in a Kafkaesque no man's land, where the only escape is through the court system.
Although its raison d'être remains elusive, the gene appears to play an important role in DNA repair: Mice lacking the protein Brca1 have trouble fixing DNA damage induced by radiation, for instance, and the protein clumps in the nucleus at sites where DNA is broken.
If you're having trouble fixing your attitude, don't worry.
The OLPC organizers have specifically requested a good selection of practical things to help out around a very basic house such as "fixing cement cracks, rigging blinds or rugs, making a broom / dustpan / bucket from scrap materials, salvaging 'ruined' nails/wood, repairing different kinds of clothing troubles, fixing various kinds of cars, etc.
Trouble-shooters fixed the problem by early afternoon, but the shutdown caused major disruptions.
The lesson of big banking busts, such as Japan's in the 1990s, is that debt-laden balance-sheets must be restructured and troubled banks fixed before real recoveries can take off.
My sense is that a lot of what's going on in our ongoing policy disaster is that important people, up to and including the president, just find it implausible that such a big crisis could be essentially a problem of coordination, that it's just magneto trouble whose fix need not, in fact should not, involve inflicting a lot of punishment on working Americans.
Then he'd try to persuade them that it had been there for years and wasn't worth the trouble of fixing, because the patch material — the limestone-colored compound they used in these cases — would be more noticeable, an eyesore, one more modern distraction for those who came to look.
