Word: akin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million worth of losses in California real estate last year and plunged Sunasco deeply into the red. The buyer: Manhattan's Commonwealth United Corp., a movie-making (The Pawnbroker) and -distributing company with realty and insurance sidelines. Price: $25.2 million, paid in Commonwealth stock. In an accompanying deal akin to a divorce settlement, Sunasco lined the coffers of money-shy Sunset with $ 1,000,000 in cash and $8.6 million worth of Sunasco stock-chiefly in exchange for Sunset's interest in five California realty ventures...
...triumph and trouble alike, 1967 stitched the national economies of the free world ever closer together. Half a dozen countries-Britain, Canada, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Austria-developed an economic malaise akin to that of the U.S.: industrial stagnation and rising unemployment coupled with inflationary tendencies. Reason: wages and government spending rose despite economic slowdowns. Germany stopped its spiral of wages and prices, but at the cost of a severe recession that pulled down the pace of business throughout most of the Common Market. Only Italy, which underwent a deflationary purge three years ago, showed strong economic gains without...
...distinguishing life from death. It still is, in the vast majority of cases, despite some special situations in which the brain's electrical activity is a more reliable index. (So far, no surgeon has seriously considered transplanting a brain, because, beyond the forbidding technical difficulties, this would be akin to transplanting a person. Similarly, transplantation of entire gonads-ovaries or testicles-might carry with it a change in hereditary material...
Visually, Von Karajan's conception was akin to the antiscenic expressionism of postwar Bayreuth productions, with a few meager props on a bare stage to suggest rather than spell out the setting. But he went beyond the Bayreuth style in meshing musical values to stage pictures. The music, too, frequently sounded spare and delicate, engaging the listener's imagination rather than overwhelming...
...Suddenly people have elevated the fight of the Dow man to recruit to first amendment rights," he said. "Actually it's about akin to the right of peddlers to knock on your door. I oppose this cynicism, but I also oppose the high-faluting pomp of those who say Oxford and Cambridge wouldn't allow recruiting on campus, yet who don't want to model Harvard after those institutions in any other...