It did require some basic tools, and, fortunately, over my checkered do-it-yourself-carpentry career, I have acquired a modest collection -- a high-quality Makita circular saw, a drill, a jigsaw, a rechargeable, battery-powered screwdriver and a metal carpenter's square, a simple plastic miter box (for 45-degree-angle cuts), a set of sturdy spring-loaded clamps and a level.
It was less than a month ago that Swiss Re assured investors it was weathering the subprime storm with a set of sturdy third-quarter results.
Three weeks ago, a set of sturdy third-quarter results from Swiss Re made the world's biggest "insurer for insurers" look like a shining beacon of safety among a storm of multibillion-dollar write-downs at financial institutions.
It is the sound of an established star getting back to core principles, restoring a set of aesthetically sturdy, conservative and also decidedly outmoded values.
On Tuesday night, at the first of two sold-out shows at the Nokia Theater, Chris Daughtry seemed hard working and humble, leading a competent band through a straightforward set of sturdy rock songs.
Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly, however, gave the movie a positive review, commenting Crossroads "not only makes excellent use of the singer's sweetly coltish acting abilities, but it also promotes a standardized set of sturdy values with none of Mariah Carey's desperate Glitter, or any of Mandy Moore's gummy pap in A Walk to Remember".
To me, the Giants represented substance over style, and a set of old-fashioned, sturdy virtues, which, as every younger generation is told, are fading from the world.
Headphone breaking Boiler Room sensation Spencer Parker's back with another set of sturdy club workouts that are perfect for the DJ in your life.
"Capital," in its use of real estate as the key that unlocks a set of characters' values, resembles several other sturdy realist novels that have come out lately, which straddle the period of economic rise and ruin of the recent past: Adam Haslett's "Union Atlantic," Jonathan Dee's "The Privileges," and Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom".
Taken together, a set of policies such as these can better ensure that financial inclusion is a sturdier, longer-lasting bridge to securing and advancing households' financial health.
This is a sturdy rectangular box, nearly always built of lumber, with an open top and a bottom roughened by a set of riffles.
