Word: cog
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...band. But Thompson, 35, became intrigued with climate and weather, and just three years after he enrolled for graduate study at the University of Washington, he and his faculty adviser, John M. Wallace, published an attention-grabbing paper that announced the discovery of the Arctic Oscillation, an important new cog in the earth's climate machine...
...flurry of Banana Republic-clad youngsters, elbows sticking out at lethal angles, and palm pilots chock full of recruitment meetings spent the last week jockeying for cog-dom in the consulting wheel. Note to certain seniors: years of consulting with your roommates on whether chartreuse clashes with magenta (and that’s just the guys) doesn’t make you a top-tier candidate. McKinsey, bring...
...drama was hopelessly miscast. Fischer, the champion of the American way, was an antisocial, anti-Semitic egomaniac who complained about the lighting, the auditorium, the prize money, even the marble the chessboard was made of. Spassky, the cog in the Soviet machine, was a genial, sensitive fellow who liked a drink once in a while. He was Ali to Fischer's Foreman. Of course, Fischer ate him alive. Bobby Fischer Goes to War tells the story in fine, brisk style, interpreting the red-hot chess-fu action--the Ruy Lopez opening! The Nimzo-Indian defense!--for us nongeniuses and conveying...
Junior center Tom Cavanagh, the critical cog in Harvard’s offense, took a grand total of zero shots on net. Senior wing Dennis Packard, Cavanagh’s running buddy on the top line, mustered only one shot over 60 minutes. And sophomore Charlie Johnson, despite time on the team’s second line and with the second power play unit, added only one attempt...
Ogbechie, along with virtually every other offensive weapon, returns for the Crimson next season. Only Jellin—admittedly a critical cog in the team’s well-oiled offense—graduates this week, leaving junior-to-be Kim Gould to assume the setting duties...