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Today, Americans are?finding their own tips and tricks? ?for fixing malfunctioning devices with supplies as simple as paper and glue.

But it’s one of many low- tech fixes for high-tech failures that people without engineering degrees have discovered, often out of desperation and shared.

They lack talent to fix their deepening problems.

They haven't fixed all the shortcomings of print books.

It must have taken you a long time to fix up all these book shelves.

Doris fixed up some of the bookshelves.

Fixing the time for the designer's latest fashion show.

Well, I always loved racing bikes and fixing them.

Ask the man to fix the refrigerator.

Maybe you should have it fixed.

Don't spend a paragraph on how your uncle John tried to fix the problem and couldn't.

For example, there’s a problem that needs to be addressed immediately, resulting in a dispute over who should be the one to fix it.

The fundamental fix—reshaping how care is delivered and how doctors are paid in a wasteful, abnormal system—is likely to be achieved only through trial and error and incremental gains.

The answer is that no one has an easy fix for rising medical costs.

Young people grow up without developing the skills to fix things around the house," says Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.

But some of their fixes have made the problem worse.

To ask him to fix the dictating machine

Do you think you could come and fix it for me?

The woman can try to fix it herself

Imaging how you both feel if she fixed the turkey dinner or something.

The suitcase can be fixed in time.

Can you have it fixed by next Tuesday

The suitcase is not worth fixing.

I know, but there's always the feeling that if it isn't broke, don't fix it.

If we want to fix the problem of the income gap, first we have to understand it.

The company even provides mail-order repair kits and online videos, so that customers can learn how to fix a pair of jeans at home.

The fundamental fix—reshaping how care is delivered and how doctors are paid in a wasteful, abnormal system—is likely to be achieved only through trial and error and incremental gains.

Wadhams says there is no easy technological fix to climate change.

A neighborhood girl I'd played with millions of times appeared with the exact same basket fixed to her shiny, new bike that already had all the bells and whistles.

Are you facing a situation that looks impossible to fix?

But you can't be successful when there's a lack of trust in a relationship that results from an action where the wrongdoer takes no responsibility to fix the mistake.

His son had the ability to fix it.

I want to fix my cell phone.

I'm talking about people who have stopped learning on growing because they have adopted the fixed attitudes and opinions that all too often come with passing years.

It was summer and, one day, my mother drove me to the bike shop to get a tire fixed---and there it was in the window.

My son, with other motorheads, fixed the car.

Oh, that's great! I was really impressed with fix-it.

Perhaps you should ask them to get it fixed in just one or two days.

Since that first repair job, a broken air-conditioner, a non-functioning washer and a non-toasting toaster have been fixed.

The design industry has moved away from a fixed offices setup and created more flexible "strategic management environments".

There is absolutely nothing you can do while this is going on but keep both eyes fixed on the sink until it's full.

They got parts from a junkyard, non-toasting toaster have been fixed.

They ignore the appointed time and leave their homes only after the fixed time.

This is Jake Lee at Fix-It Corporation.

We will give you a call as soon as it's fixed.

When you face such an impossible situation, don't you want a quick fix and something to change immediately?

Now comes word that everyone involved---Democrats, Republicans, the Postal Service, the unions and the system's heaviest users --as finally agreed on a plan to fix the system.

And guilt, by prompting us to think more deeply about our goodness, can encourage humans to make up for errors and fix relationships.

Markets have lost faith that the euro zone's economies, weaker or stronger, will one day converge thanks to the discipline of sharing a single currency, which denies uncompetitive members the quick fix of devaluation.

Now comes word that everyone involved—Democrats, Republicans, the Postal Service, the unions and the system's heaviest users—has finally agreed on a plan to fix the system.

That framework has contributed mightily to our broken immigration system and the long political paralysis over how to fix it.