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wrenches

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Third person singular of wrench

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Policymakers also need a full set of "macroprudential" tools, from wrenches to duct tape.To fix housing bubbles, Mr Posen suggests, policymakers should consider a tax on real estate that varies over the cycle, rising in property booms and falling in busts.

They line the sides of narrow corridors, their doorways overflowing with bales of wire, crockery, wrenches, lights, cutlery, pens, toys, tools, ornaments for the world's holidaymakers and even newly manufactured Middle Eastern "antiques".

In his dissent, Justice Kennedy wrenches out of context a famous line written by Justice Louis Brandeis in Whitney v California, a case from 1925 involving the arrest of a communist party member for advocating terrorism.

He is calm under pressure (no tantrum, Cameron) and an impressive campaigner.But he will flop in 2009 unless he wrenches himself out of the downbeat posture into which events and Mr Brown have driven him.

Pneumatic wrenches are commonly used in automobile service stations, where compressed air is available and the sparking of electric motors is a fire hazard.

Modern wrenches are drop forgings and come in many formats.

In their earliest forms, such wrenches, with straight, angled, or S-shaped handles, were made of wrought iron.

The limitations of fixed-opening wrenches were addressed as early as the 18th century, when sliding-jaw types were developed to accommodate a range of flats.

Early box and socket wrenches fit only a particular nut or screw with flat surfaces on the head.

By the early 19th century, patents for screw wrenches began to proliferate; in these, the sliding jaw was positioned and held by means of a screw whose axis was parallel to the handle.

A wrench with 12 points is used on either a hexagonal or a square nut; the 8- and 16-point wrenches are used on square members.

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