Half of American homes own an electric drill, but most people use it once and then forget it.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

He surveyed boxes and suitcases, fingered the electric drill, tapped on the wine barrel, which echoed with a dim hollowness.

NEWYORKER: Waiting

Despite his advancing years and a number of health scares -- he suffered heart problems while making an earlier attempt to climb Everest and amputated five of his fingers using an electric drill from his garden shed after losing them to frostbite - Fiennes is sanguine about his chances of success.

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