He believes, Mr. Rasmussen said, that it would be irresponsible to hand off the complex machinery of his office without giving his successor adequate time to prepare.
What if you could take the same software, he and Franklin wondered, and make it control off-the-shelf agricultural machinery?
Romney, in some ways, looks a lot like some of the frontrunners who crashed and burned at the last minute: laden with endorsements, sporting tons of yard signs and benefiting from what appears to be a thorough and impregnable organization -- but also giving off the whiff of establishment machinery and purpose, and failing to inspire much passion on the part of his ostensible supporters.
"I didn't die?" To Brooke, it was a kind of miracle — all the machinery had been shut off, just as he asked, but he was still alive.
You peer down into a Rolleiflex, which is often more helpful than sticking a single-lens reflex in front of your face, but the machinery still blocks you off from your subjects — you still can't look at them, as you would at someone whom you wished to scare, or with whom you were poised to fall in love.
She thinks noise from the machinery may have scared off her 15-year-old cat, Taneka, who's disappeared.
The staging of court ballets was accordingly adapted to show off the possibilities of the new machinery.
It is not the first time the Environment Agency has auctioned off dredging machinery.
People need their down time and I don't begrudge them that, but procrastination does highlight a fundamental glitch in our cognitive "design": the gap between the machinery that sets our goals (off-line) and the machinery that chooses (on-line, in the moment) which goals to follow.
