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...also needed for the job itself. According to those who built the sukkah, the bolts were securely fastened with a wrench, and would have been impossible to remove by hand. To do so much damage, the vandals would have needed tools--wrenches, and flashlights if it took place before dawn--that most people don't have lying around just in case they decide to play a joke. Because the sukkah is located away from the main thoroughfare, the act was so time consuming, and the damage was so extensive, it is ridiculous to think the decision to vandalize...
...This throws a monkey wrench into Ivy plans. We could both still finish on top, but who knows about Penn and Princeton," Anderson said...
True, a few union members and advocates backed the project, worried that conflict over Scheme Z would throw a wrench into the entire Central Artery project, which the state's Department of Transportation has said will create 15,000 jobs. But proponents were clearly the silent minority...
...Traditionally women have been discouraged from mechanical work. We've always felt a commitment to putting the wrench back in the woman's hand," says Sowers...
...public imagination than did Graham Greene. Millions who have never read him are nonetheless familiar with his vision. Versions of Greene-scenes can be found in daily headlines or wherever entertainment flickers: the dubious quest, undertaken by a flawed agent with divided loyalties against an uncertain enemy; the wrench of fear or of violence that confronts an otherwise ordinary person with a vision of eternal damnation or inexplicable grace...