Word: cog
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...took detailed measurements of her shoulder width, thigh length and waist circumference--and announced she would have the honor of serving her motherland as a weight lifter. The then 14-year-old daughter of vegetable farmers had little choice in the matter. She had been chosen to be a cog in China's vast sports machine, a multibillion-dollar apparatus designed with one primary goal in mind: churning out Olympic gold medalists...
...combine that athleticism with a nice touch on the ball. It’d be tough to find a better centerback in the country.” Nyamekye, who entered college as a natural forward, has made a smooth transition to defense, serving as a valuable cog on a backline that is only allowing 1.18 goals against this season. Weighing in at impressive 6’1, 190 pounds, the physically remarkable Swiss international dominates unsuspecting forwards with the ease of a seasoned defender. Transitioning from one position to another is normally a daunting task for any player, but Nyamekye...
...thing is that I work in a hospital that has 10,000 employees throughout the system. You will naturally disappear as a cog in the machine. The pressure is to simply get through your day,” he says. “But we all need human interaction to be effective at what...
...Dilemma” and super-saturating myself with soy, I’ve changed my tune. As with many things, I’ve found that what is “sustainable” is much more complicated than I once assumed.)Soon I had became another cog in the problem-set machine of introductory science. By mid-November, I had jettisoned all my newfound passions in the throes of that ubiquitous Harvard-freshman identity crisis. Only the EAC remained. In a bizarre twist of fate, I had become its co-chair by my freshman spring. The previous fall...
...looking forward to being just another cog in the machine,” Tsang says...