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All you need is a little patience to measure off your design and some masking tape.
THE HOUSE DOCTOR; WICKER WORKS
As it became clear the Common Cause measure would make the ballot, one last-ditch effort was made to keep CalPIRG's measure off. Common Cause and several other intermediaries tried to talk Phelps and his group into holding off until 1998.
Battle of the white hats: two campaign finance reform groups fight the good fight - with each other
Measure off the hole locations so that they will match up with the holes in the shorter pieces of boards.
A ladder that levels the field
The clean energy initiative will be tied up in court starting Monday as attorneys representing Arizonans for Affordable Electricity an opposition group funded by APS work to knock the measure off the ballot.
Steyer: APS using dishonest tactics against clean energy initiative
The architect's rendering of the Siuslaw Bridge included a measurement taken by the condo developers by dropping a tape measure off of the bridge, the Board of Architect Examiners found, instead of an official survey of the bridge height.
Architect faces fine in condo dispute
One of the flies in this ointment is that the overall length of bullets is a big variable, so if we measure off the tip of the bullet we won't be terribly precise.
But to do it precisely you need to be able to measure off the bullet ogive and for that you need some special--but not very expensive gear.
Kissing the rifling
First measure off two 12-inch sections of fin and mark, leaving at least 1-1/2-inch of tubing exposed at each end.
Get hot water from your woodstove. (Alternative energy)
Also, councilors shoved a possible City Hall bond measure off next November's ballot to sometime in 2010.
City street repairs on road to '08 vote
Now use your ruler to measure off 200 feet [at the scale of 100 feet per inch] along the 40 degree direction.
Plot a map from a land description the cheapie way
If the civil liberties group loses in its attempt to keep the measure off the ballot, it will make the case to voters - along with business, labor, and other groups that have historically made large campaign contri- butions.
Ballot measures target campaign money