Word: cog
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What makes this trend even more troubling is its departure from the historic mission of U.S. public schools. Americans have always regarded education as a critical cog in the machinery of democracy. But they have also prided themselves on constructing "common" institutions that, unlike European schools, geared lessons to the middle and did not select elites early. Educators stressed that a program suitable for the best students was also good enough for the average ones. By catering to average students and preparing them for stable jobs, America's public schools would help build an educated, prosperous middle class...
...summer the weather is a little tamer, and you can hike up to the summit or take a cog railway...
...course just as every cog in the assembly line becomes human the second it walks out of the factory, the Harvard baseball team is, in fact, anything but nameless...
...greatest medium to find commercial work.... The jobs in commercial animation is not that great because you're a cog in the team," she said. "But if you find something here that you like and do well...then you're that much further in convincing someone out in the world that this is what they should hire...
...Manhattan) but also seeks to fill them with homegrown shows that Drabinsky initiates from scratch. Livent uses profits from long-running road companies to finance new works, which may run a year or more in cities like Toronto before going to New York. Broadway thus becomes just one cog in a worldwide theatrical engine. Other theater powers are following suit. Two weeks ago, the Jujamcyn chain of Broadway theaters joined with Pace Theatrical Group, a presenter of national tours, to combine production and distribution operations on the Livent model...