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organ noun affiliate, agency, annex, appendage, arm, associate, branch, branch office, bureau, chapter, department, division, extension, instrument, local, lodge, means, member, newspaper, office, offshoot, part, periodical, post, ramification, section, subdivision, subsidiary, unit, wing See also: chapter, publication How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Hazlett, who served as chief economist at the Federal Communications Commission in the early '90s, calls over-the-air TV broadcasts "a vestigial organ that is massively costly to the country not to be using for things like mobile phones and wireless Internet. A mandatory digital broadcast tuner would be a costly vestigial organ in the sets used by millions of American cable and satellite viewers. Despite the earnest efforts of a competent supporting ensemble, all the other characters inhabiting the stage are like vestigial organs the playwright has stuck onto the body of the play to create a dramatic structure that simply doesn't work and isn't needed. |
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