Word: cog
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...partners who finish each other's sentences, and they make joint decisions on everything from the Felicity website to the type of glass that should go in a window. It's plenty of work. "The difference with film," says Abrams, "is that as a writer you're a cog in a giant machine. In TV you're a cog in a giant machine, but it is your machine...
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...