Lori Johnson, a longtime auto mechanic, teaches car-owners the basics at Ladies Start Your Engines.

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Rusk, 67, a former machinist and painter who admitted on a 1992 medical exam to drinking a six-pack of beer a day and occasionally using "amphetamine and IV crank, " blamed his shortness of breath on brake pads even though he worked part-time as a car mechanic and started smoking in 1951.

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Mechanic Romney offers to give your car his special 59-point inspection.

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In terms preferred by economists, a situation defined by a principal-agent problem (such as you hiring a doctor or car mechanic who gets to both define your problem and figure out what to charge you for fixing it) was replaced by a much simpler employment relationship: would-be hustlers found themselves being turned into professional, generalist managers.

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Trainee mechanic Andrew Mackay, of Dyce in Aberdeen, died after the one-car accident on Monday afternoon.

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When your mechanic wants to tell you your car is ready, for example, he can flash you -- it's your car, after all, and if you want it back, you'd better call him.

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