We were deliriously happy 20 years ago when we were tightening our belts and donning our hair shirts. |
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Note that the separate wrench on the small vise is hexagonal and fitted onto a hexagonal nut for tightening the vice. |
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For hanging coat hooks, tightening door hinges and replacing washers in the toilet-tank float valve you'll need a set of screwdrivers. |
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This is the film where Chaplin gets sucked into the bowels of a machine, tightening screws as he get squeezed through a series of cogwheels. |
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Companies are tightening their belts, and business travelers are looking for ways to maximize their per diems. |
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But now you no longer need a safe harbor from U.S. monetary tightening, so Malaysia shouldn't be selling at a premium. |
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He stifled his immediate reaction, although he couldn't keep from tightening his jaw. |
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Do this by sticking the stripped ends of the wires into any hole in the neutral bus bar and attaching them by tightening down the screw heads. |
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To complete the installation, attach the headrail to the installation brackets by tightening the wing nuts. |
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Hypothetically speaking, there is a range of different ways that you could go about tightening the definition of negligence. |
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European authorities view these estimates as being far too optimistic and want further belt tightening. |
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I find this quite annoying as tightening the wheel in the track dropouts puts addition pressure on the bearings making it difficult to adjust. |
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He rigidly walked forward, his jaw clenched as he fought with the nausea tightening his stomach. |
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Tie one end with two overhand knots, placing them on top of each other and without over tightening. |
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I then took the rope and tied it off around my waist, tightening the drape to give me a more decent look. |
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There would also be controls on recruitment and tightening up of costs in relation to waste management, charged services and extern costs. |
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I started tightening saddles and untying the biggest camp items from the packhorse. |
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Rachel actually paled, her chest tightening with a surprising torrent of fear as well as an emotion she could not recognize. |
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After quickly brushing Mesa, I began to saddle him up, carefully tightening the cinch. |
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A hand snatched her wrist in mid-swing, clawed fingers tightening as she tried to struggle free. |
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I haven't counted how much I received so far yet, but I'm guessing wallets are light and belts are tightening. |
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Remember to try tightening all your muscles, holding your breath, or breathing heavy. |
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The question took him by surprise, and his eyes grew guarded and cautious, his own grip tightening as well. |
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Her mother became very serious for a moment, her hands tightening on Jessie's shoulders. |
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His heart raced, flicking against his rib cage and tightening his throat to near total constriction. |
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This type of vinyl floor, being perimeter bonded, will now contract slightly, tightening like a drumhead over the next 24 to 48 hours. |
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Every day he works on it a little more, pruning the chapters, getting the facts straight, tightening the prose. |
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The saw was also equipped with a mechanism for tightening and tracking the blade. |
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The problems corrected ranged from leakage and wrinkling to deflation of the implant and tightening of the scar tissue around the implant. |
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But it's because of our credit tightening that our bad debt isn't worsening. |
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His lavish past has left its mark financially, and the creditors are now tightening the metaphorical noose. |
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Brass is able to deform slightly, hence a good bit of tightening causes the ferule to seal nicely against the pipe. |
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Slowly curl the weights up to your shoulders, tightening the bicep muscle as you go. |
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The Scottish Executive wants to set an example by tightening the purse strings and understanding some economics. |
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Margins are tightening and growth slowing to the levels of more mature markets. |
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Second, despite past Fed tightening, corporate interest rates are still attractive enough so as not to crimp borrowing. |
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As she entered the garage she spotted Aouri kneeling beside Brigg's motorcycle, tightening something with a wrench. |
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Those of us in the know would attend lessons with a screwdriver, tightening or loosening screws as necessary. |
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They'll be tightening the border control, if not slamming the borders completely shut. |
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Meanwhile, the ECB's money supply data suggests the credit crunch is tightening its grip on the wider economy. |
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For many people this means tightening the belt a bit, cutting back on the creature comforts and simply making inroads into the credit card bill. |
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When the filter just becomes snug, continue tightening until the filter is parallel to the body of the foot valve as shown below. |
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State-sponsored secularism, legally tightening its control, is ever more openly intolerant of rival belief systems. |
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A tab on the shroud engaged a small slot in the frame to prevent it from turning and the rifling twist made everything self tightening. |
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More and more governments are tightening controls on media freedom and information blackouts. |
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After tightening the bolt and clipping the rope in, I had nothing left to do than test my theory. |
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The tools were a saw, a pipe borer or tube drills for wine reduction, and a carpenter's drill or brace with a tightening screw. |
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The assumption is that the Bank of England is intent on tightening policy over the coming months, but its decisions will depend on the data. |
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He tugged at the neck of his turtleneck sweater feeling like it was a noose tightening with each attack. |
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While some companies might look at downsizing in a tightening economy other companies might upskill and provide more training. |
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I would just urge a bit of caution around the tightening of that parameter. |
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But in a market where bond yields are tightening and inflation is low, returns are the top priority for investors. |
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The fall in bulk billing was closely related to tightening supply of medical practitioners. |
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Consumers, though they may have felt the pinch from tightening bank lending standards, show little signs of slowing down. |
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But it's not just bunco artists who are suffering from this tightening of the purse strings. |
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The collet closer is shaped and sized to, on tightening of the collet closet, radially compress the collet to grip the sheath. |
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The controlled heating of deeper tissue and the ensuing skin tightening is known as volumetric tissue heating. |
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Moreover, the new bustle in activity is tightening up the slack in manufacturing. |
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Plus, the labor market may well be tightening faster than recent job data suggest. |
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It's a malevolent money noose that is tightening just as the festive season's bells and lights are beginning to chime and shine. |
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Even tepid job growth means the labor market is tightening, albeit at a gradual pace. |
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The tightening of our money supply will have serious repercussions on our domestic economy. |
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They have revised the product, tightening up latencies and improving performance. |
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Traditionally blue Pennsylvania should be a slam-dunk for the president, but late polls showed a tightening race. |
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Just a slow inexorable tightening of cold inescapable dread, ending in bottomless grief and loss. |
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It was asked, left to right, across the stage, bypassing Gingrich, tightening the noose. |
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Ironically, Trotter had succeeded in tightening a censorship bill but failed to stop the movie. |
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More important, Greenspan is jawboning the bond market into believing that the specter of deflation will stop the Fed from tightening monetary policy anytime soon. |
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The arm seized him around the neck, tightening in a stranglehold. |
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The commission was supposed to be examining the arguments for tightening up the use of the death penalty. |
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This organization feels that at a time when all countries are tightening their citizenship laws after the Sept 11 attack, India is thinking in the reverse direction. |
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And every home handyman has learned too that if you don't want your nuts chewed when tightening or loosening them, there's nothing better than a set or ring spanner. |
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The F.W. Woolworth Company reported profit margins of 20 percent but actually lowered the wages of salesgirls in its stores, citing the need for belt tightening. |
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If you go for fiscal tightening, which is kind of baked in the cake, tax increases are coming and coming soon, then you risk actually choking off such recovery as there is. |
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Analysts said her hint that the taper could be flexible suggests less of a determination to push ahead with policy tightening than was evident a few months ago. |
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He suddenly took a step closer to me, his hands tightening on my arms. |
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In an interview yesterday, he agreed the noose was tightening. |
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But it appears from this case that the noose is tightening by stealth. |
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As he feels the noose tightening, Whitlock finds himself in a race against the clock to uncover the mysteries surrounding the deaths and maintain his innocence. |
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It's really only been in recent months that people have been tightening their belts by a notch or two and, to my mind, there's little room for complacency yet. |
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Check the edges for alignment often before tightening the clamps down. |
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Begin by tightening your buttocks and lifting your hips off the floor. |
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Speaking in Hokkien, he also presented 10 labor policies, including tightening foreign labor imports and making the privatization process more transparent. |
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The investigation comes after widespread concerns about more radical cosmetic surgery, such as facelifts and liposuction, which has resulted in a tightening of the law. |
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Bosses at the engineering firm, which specialises in custom-built race trailers and hospitality units, say motor racing teams are tightening their budgets. |
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The performance is creditworthy in view of the absorption of overhang problems by public sector banks and tightening of prudential norms for the banks. |
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I think I dished the wheel a little later than I should have, and I adjusted the dish mostly by tightening spokes on the one side instead of loosening spokes on the other. |
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The company, which accounts for nearly 10 per cent of US retail sales excluding cars, has repeated in recent weeks that its consumers are tightening their belts. |
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As one of the most postponable purchases a consumer can make, it tends to get hit first by tightening credit markets and rising unemployment. |
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Cover the entire hairdo with an elasticized hairnet, tightening the net to make a neat and almost invisible covering. |
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The model loaded by tightening a nut on the M12 screw through two washers made of Plexiglas was examined in a circular polariscope. |
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Getting loan against gold will now become tougher with the Reserve Bank of India further tightening rules for such disbursals. |
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The further tightening of labor markets in recent quarters has been reflected in a more discernible uptilt to the trend in hourly compensation. |
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Even through repeated threading and unthreading, the Click-N-Seal prevents over tightening, stopping at the specified torque every time. |
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Pope Francis has issued a motu proprio tightening internal regulations against money laundering at the Vatican. |
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Upon cooling, the rivet contracted and exerted further force, tightening the joint. |
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Going forward, the NBM needs to remain ready to adopt a tightening bias if inflationary pressures start emerging. |
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The curfew decree comes as the latest of a list of steadily tightening home front controls ordered since the German breakthru in Belgium. |
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This led to a tightening of regulations and better monitoring of individual vessels. |
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Topical products mimic the effect of an injectable product or a surgical eyelift by firming and tightening the skin for a youthful look. |
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Banks will react by tightening their credit conditions, that in turn leads to a credit crunch which does serious harm to the economy. |
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Thus it could be seen as something akin to lunacy to centralize the process even further, thereby tightening the grip of the political class on the intelligence community. |
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It's the world's one and only treatment that''s FDA proven to lift the face and neck nonsurgically, treating from the bone up, tightening all those tissues. |
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Oh, sure, occasionally I get around to twanging the rigging or tightening a turnbuckle or actually squirting something with lubricant before it freezes solid. |
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The other is a legal examination of the reasons behind the tightening up of will-making requirements, and particularly the effect that the Statute of Fraud had on the process. |
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The axial force provided by the clamping screws is a function of the quantity of screws, the lubricity of the screw threads and the tightening torque applied to the screws. |
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Although a tight psoas is a common finding during hip arthroscopy in patients with symptomatic psoas impingement, the cause of the tightening has not yet been explored. |
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Continued capacity constraints from monolines, coupled with a tightening of interest rate spreads, will likely limit the number of wrapped transactions. |
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According to experts, the yellow stains on their teeth and the accompanying unbearable pain are clear signs that fluorosis is tightening its grip on the area. |
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