Word: cog
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...insider - an officer, director or major stockholder of a corporation -is a powerful cog in the complicated machinery of business, usually privy to a company's secrets and aware of important developments before the public hears of them. Most insiders, of course, are also aware of their responsibilities and careful in their dealings, but the Securities and Exchange Commission has become increasingly concerned about possible abuses. Last week, the SEC threw a glaring light on the insider's role in a case that involved one of the hottest business developments of recent times: the announcement last spring...
ABSENCE OF A CELLO is a bright, laugh-every-other-minute comedy demonstrating that a free-spirited scientist cannot be stamped into a cog-sized mold...
ABSENCE OF A CELLO is a bright, laugh-every-other-minute comedy demonstrating that a free-spirited scientist cannot be stamped into a cog-sized mold...
...quip hand, nimble direction by James Hammerstein, and faultless comic timing by a superior cast, Cello breezes along even when it is replaying the same joke. But the plot is strangely unknowing in its pivotal notion. No sane corporation would think of stamping a scientist of stature into a cog-sized mold. And nowadays scientists do not "sell out"-they buy in, by forming their own companies and voting themselves stock options...
Fighting City Hall. On election night, Scott conceded 31 hours after the polls closed, and Percy wound up with 615,686 votes to Scott's 383,462. In November, Percy will face Illinois' ineffectual Governor Otto Kerner, a cog in Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machinery. Said Percy: "We'll be running against the White House, the Governor's mansion and city hall."† But he felt a good deal of his own strength would come from his freedom to run for Governor as his own man. Said confident Chuck Percy after last week...