The most common window regulator on the road today is a scissorlike mechanism that opens to push up the window.

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In establishing the common currency area, the Euro, the separate countries are essentially throwing away this adjustment mechanism.

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The Founders were concerned that a popular vote would leave too much in the hands of the common people, so they devised a system of electors, and left a good deal of the mechanism of appointing those electors up to individual states.

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