So in order to fix the global economy, we must first fix the dollar.
Give Microsoft credit: Its first fix for a security flaw in Internet Explorer that was actively exploited by hackers may have been complex and unworkable.
Instead of making a broken system larger, a saner approach would be to fix Medicaid first.
The Bank of Japan is doing its best to fix the first part of this problem, flooding the banking system with reserves.
Meanwhile, China, Japan, South Korea, and other Asian export-driven nations will be nudging the new U.S. President to do what will be his first priority anyway: fix the U.S.economy.
The alternative minimum tax (AMT) got a permanent fix for the first time in more than 40 years.
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The first thing Google needs to fix is the Android business model.
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He has edged to the right on two other areas where he used to be hated by his party's conservatives as a dangerous maverick: on torture (he won't rule out water-boarding) and immigration reform (he says fix the border first, which will take an eternity).
But you and I know that a temporary fix is only the first step toward meeting our challenges and solving our problems.
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The court heard how Mr Thompson had managed to move the broken lift up from the ground to the first floor as he tried to fix it.
Of course, you and I both know that a collection agency that would improperly issue such a form in the first place is also unlikely to fix it.
"The first rule of thumb is to fix what you've got, " says Allen Adamson, managing director of the New York office of Landor Associates, a brand consultancy and design firm.
We know our country can do better -- which is why I proposed a "Fix-It-First" program earlier this year to put people to work on our most pressing transportation projects.
So tonight, I propose a "Fix-It-First" programme to put people to work as soon as possible on our most urgent repairs, like the nearly 70, 000 structurally deficient bridges across the country.
First, there is no single "fix" for weak enforcement of international anti-corruption standards.
"We did fix things we missed the first time around, " Lazaridis says.
But with Egyptians suffering their worst power cuts in decades, in a sweltering Ramadan, there were howls that he should fix his problems at home first.
Obama announced that the U.S. will begin talks with the European Union on a trans-Atlantic trade agreement, as well as calling for increased spending to fix roads and bridges and the first increase in the minimum wage in six years.
The law in question was passed in 2006 to fix a seeming loophole in federal regulations that were first passed in the 1930s to prop up milk prices.
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Like almost every one else who follows the company, Munster maintains that the company is likely to fix this issue before the end of the 2011 first half, by adding Verizon Wireless ( VZ, VOD) to the list of carriers that sell the phone.
Why fix things when you can avoid breaking them in the first place?
Garvey claims he has had Credit Suisse First Boston looking for at least a year for a way to fix, merge or sell the Cleveland-Memphis operations.
If patients do indeed forgo care as the administration intends, many would see their condition deteriorate, and they would end up requiring hospital care to fix a problem that could have been prevented in the first place.
Probably the first piece of business is going to be to go ahead and fix our deficit and debt issues and make a decision about how big our government is and how we're going to pay for it.
"We will first have to check out the problems and what it will take to fix them, " he told me.
Baseball Commissioner Alan (Bud) Selig first imposed the revenue-sharing plan in 1993 as a way to fix baseball's broken economic system.
For the first time in years, both the Democrats and Republicans are working together to fix the immigration mess.
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At one point, as Paul and his engineers struggled to fix a horrible shrieking sound they couldn't silence in the first batch of phones, he felt under such stress that "I could have walked into a wall and not felt it, " he says.
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