There have also been numerous one day patterns known as reversals or hammers (stock being down significantly during the day but rallying back to close up) during October and November as can be seen in the first StockCharts.com chart below that have failed to slow the decline.

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According to FBI statistics, 352 people were killed last year with rifles, 424 with shotguns, 1, 836 with knives or cutting instruments, 623 with hammers or other blunt objects, 815 with personal weapons defined as hands, feet and fists, and 122 by strangulation.

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Piano keys each have three strings that, when struck by a felt-covered hammer, make a musical sound. (The exceptions are the bass keys, which have either two strings or one.) Pressing the soft pedal shifts the hammers so only two of the three strings are touched, giving the piano a much softer tone.

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Slow, unwieldy hammers do loads of damage, but a dagger or a faeblade are faster and can be used for assassinations.

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If they quit or rebel, the unions may again be required to play their traditional role as hammers of the left.

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Self-settled trusts, whether FAPTs or DAPTs, are scalpels to be delicately used in particularly fine situations, and not hammers to be indiscriminately swung as if everything were nails.

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