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And that's really the point of a bureaucracy, to trap people in the squirrel-cage of career advancement.
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Standard-triumph's weeks to start possessions by using a close squirrel-cage time turbine very showed to their loss in 1960, the intake was that they were required by the mean show transport fuel leyland motors.
You're a born editor, son; get over it tgilli 2009
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No envidious comparisons intended to the ironic squirrel-cage Rube Goldberg American version.
"Wooden Squirrel Cage Machine Obsesses Over Your Thoughts For You." Ann Althouse 2008
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All you need is low-volt control power and a squirrel-cage fan.
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The fan was cylindrical; it looked like those wheels hamsters love to make spin, which a squirrel might do, too, for all I know since this fan was called a squirrel-cage fan.
Too Darn Hot The Daily Growler 2006
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In my childhood home we had one big, gawky, thunderous squirrel-cage water cooler, and that was it, a big metal box at least 4 feet x 4 feet square, with three sides screened in and packed with a straw-like material.
Too Darn Hot The Daily Growler 2006
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This starting connection is the most frequently applied starting method for asynchronous squirrel-cage motors of greater power.
7. Mounting and connection of motors Werner Boschitsch 1991
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Position of bridges in a three-phase squirrel-cage motor
7. Mounting and connection of motors Werner Boschitsch 1991
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Three-phase asynchronous motors with squirrel-cage of bigger power are switched on via a starting circuit.
7. Mounting and connection of motors Werner Boschitsch 1991
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When directly switching on electric motors, especially three-phase squirrel-cage motors, the starting current may amount to the 6-fold to 8-fold value of the rated current.
3. Low-voltage circuit breakers Ernst-Otto Balding 1991
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