Word: cog
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last April when he managed to seal a pact with Israel's major labor federation, the Histadrut, to set a graduated ceiling on wage claims until April 1982. Nevertheless, he worries about the government's chances of bringing inflation under control. Says he: "Inflation is like a cog and in Israel it's very well greased...
...quota of 100 units to fill, he can, for example, work flat out and assemble 60 in the first half of a shift, leaving only 40 for a relatively unpressured second half. But when he is slotted between centrally programmed robots that dictate the pace, he becomes a mere cog in the machine. These things matter...
Some days we can be a scoring machine, other days it all just falls apart. Jack Correia, a cog in the Crimson machine...