Word: spec
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Many students, hoping for a similar path to writing success, asked Goffman’s advice on the right way to put together scripts for getting a job as a writer in Hollywood. “Write as many spec scripts as you can,” Goffman advised, also emphasizing the need to constantly be thinking of new ideas...
...When you’re writing a spec script, you want to follow the basic structure of a well known show, but add some twist and excitement,” he said. “It’s a little like pornography because you have to have that excitement on the page...
...person's labor can be reduced to a contract, it matters little whether the contract is filled in India or Indiana; the only relevant issue is cost. And the speed of technological change accelerates the process. As soon as a job becomes routine enough to describe in a spec sheet, it becomes vulnerable to outsourcing. Jobs like data entry, which are routine by nature, were the first among obvious candidates for outsourcing. But with today's advanced engineering, design and financial-analysis skills can, with time, become well-enough understood to be spelled out in a contract and signed away...
...like to see how things are made," she says simply. For GE, her skills are critical. CEO Jeff Immelt came to his position from GE Medical and has singled out the division--with $9.2 billion in sales this year--as a key source of growth. On-time, on-spec, on-budget delivery of its products will be essential in hitting that target, and it's what Mellor does best...
...scenes in so many movies, the Columbia Daily Spectator writers would grill Tellier on every aspect of the Lions’ failure. The 2000 game was the worst. Tellier seemed a very likeable guy—in a Peter-Falk-as-Columbo kind of way—and the Spec raked him over the coals for some 15 minutes, asking question after question to which there really was no answer...