1.   Garage mechanics are twice as likely to overcharge women car owners as men.

2.   The rain had started to fall and the mechanics were busy preparing the machine for what would be a wet race.

3.   Asked what the planes have in common or what the mechanics are being asked, Karen A. Gruen, a company lawyer, simply turned her palms up.

4.   Auto mechanics were the least likely to order red meat in a restaurant and to say they drank excessively at least once in the last month.

5.   Because the customer is unlikely to return for additional services, the mechanics are often encouraged to get everything out of the customer while they can.

6.   Agency officials have reached an accord with drivers and clerks, but those workers stayed off the job because the mechanics were without a contract.

7.   Airline mechanics have traditionally been loath to discuss problems with their competitors.

8.   But after an early-week session with his swing coach, Jeff Heilman, Tolles believed that his mechanics were sound enough to carry him through Sunday.

9.   But Lopez said his mechanics are good.

10.   But the mechanics are deeply different.