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+1. I agree although growing up I was always told that those types of screws were called “common screws” instead of flat head. Only ones with an actual flat head were called flat head screws, didn’t matter what bit they used.

For the most part, advertising agencies had to resort to an approach that boiled down to saying: ‘Please buy the product.’ Although a few advertising professionals did find ways to overcome this obstacle, many creative people became increasingly frustrated as they had no choice but stifle their creativity.

In terms of consistency, screw thread types are wide-ranging, which can lead to incompatibility. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has one system which is slowly gaining more widespread acceptance, leading to more standardization and wider compatibility settings.

After the purchase, The Banyan Foundation began accepting HUD funding to cover operating expenses — everything from insurance and debt to tenant utilities and maintenance. That same year, the foundation’s president, Rob Coats, received a 63 percent raise, up from $175,000 to $278,000.

Complemented with awards for ‘Wills Man of the Match’, ‘Wills Man of the Series’ and so on, the brand launched a series of commercials profiling the top players of the time. However, since our players have traditionally been unpredictable, they often performed badly just when a Wills commercial praising their skills was aired, much to the sponsors’ chagrin!

Yoni Appelbaum: Let’s start at the beginning. What’s the utility of having a single, standardized system of measurement?

I believe that I can give you some comfort right away. Based on the photos you sent, it appears your roof framing is quite substantial. The only way for me to have full confidence would be to go into your attic and inspect all the locations where one piece of lumber is connected to another. Fortunately, it appears it’s pretty easy to get around up in your attic because it’s a steeper roof and it was common framed instead of using prefabricated trusses.

Paper bed filters provide long-term solutions for solids filtration, with or without magnetic separation, and are suited to grinding applications. Filtered fluid can be reused or recycled, lowering operational costs.

Five years later, things are starting to change. With the maturing of a lot of those high-yield government securities, along with pressures on traditional banking revenue streams, it seems banks are now flush with cash and are once again willing to look at consumer banking as a way to augment revenue in the face of low discount rates.

I’m surprised at the lack of Europeans gloating about the ubiquity of Pozidriv screws here. Maybe you all don’t know how good you’ve got it?

(Spoiler alert: Please do not read ahead unless you’ve watched through last Thursday’s episode of “How to Get Away with Murder.”)

Appelbaum: We’ve arrived at a hybrid system. Most American rulers show inches along one edge, centimeters along the other. Is it possible that the metric system will slowly displace English measurements, not by government fiat, but one inch at a time?