With used-car values already out of whack, shoppers need to be extra cautious to avoid compounding an already unfavorable financial situation by selecting a more problematic model that will require costly out-of-warranty repair work.

MSN: Used-car clunkers to avoid

Mr. Sen, 23, is a part-time driver who dropped out of school after ninth grade to work at a car-repair shop.

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Romney is a businessman who came to politics out of a strong sense of duty -- and belief in his own ability to repair what's broken.

CNN: What's wrong with Romney the candidate

To direct them, the power companies put some of their office workers out in the field, where cell-phones were used to co-ordinate repair work.

ECONOMIST: The past is a dark, cold place

Drake used her builder husband to carry out flood damage repair work around the country - even though he was not on Norwich Union's list of accredited contractors.

BBC: Exeter insurance women jailed for flood fraud claims

Previously, as a result of the now infamous budget-repair bill passed earlier this year in the Badger State, the legislature had taken themselves out of the Medicaid cutting business by turning full responsibility for the same over to the Department of Health Services.

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