Techtronic is best known for brands like Milwaukee Electric Tools, Homelite outdoor products, and Dirt Devil and Hoover vaccum cleaners.

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In its rural crime survey, the theft of power tools - such as chainsaws, electric drills and lawnmowers - topped the list of items targeted, it said.

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Yet I am that rara avis, the male of the species who does not own any power tools, other than an electric toothbrush, and who has not been making unnecessary noise nonstop since kindergarten.

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An executive at General Electric, Loescher had previously served as chief operating officer of Swiss biotech-tools firm Amersham and as chief executive of the Japanese arm of drug giant Sonofi-Aventis.

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For the tune up we visited Dynamic Electric Vehicles in San Luis Obispo California where co-owner Vince Pacifico, gathered a few tools and tightened the brake cables with ease.

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