We spoke with an agent who, despite protestations, booked a "technician" to inspect and attempt to repair the damaged items.

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At Kotter International, one of our clients allowed their transportation repair team to attempt a re-organization of their repair depot.

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But Nagin said a repair attempt was supposed to have been made Tuesday.

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You highlighted at that time many of the issues of underinvestment and mismanagement that Network Rail is now having to repair as we attempt what is probably the biggest industrial turnaround in British business.

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Dr James Fawcett, from the Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, says that any successful attempt to produce nerve regrowth in humans would probably depend on a combination of treatments, both aimed at breaking down scar tissue and encouraging nerves to sprout.

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The government in Khartoum has also sought to repair the damage done to relations with Egypt by a Sudanese-sponsored assassination attempt on President Hosni Mubarak in Ethiopia in 1995.

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