Word: akin
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Deputy Interior Minister Boris Shumilin recently urged a comprehensive, nationwide approach to the problem. Heeding Shumilin's advice, the Moscow City Soviet (akin to a city council) adopted tough ordinances banning the sale of booze in the vicinity of industrial sites, schools and recreation areas. Where once a tippler could pick up a bottle at countless corner groceries and even special kiosks along major streets, henceforth only special liquor outlets, supermarkets and department stores will be permitted to sell the stuff. Other Soviet cities can be expected to follow Moscow's lead, and a national law is likely...
...LOCAL press lately has been trumpeting the fact that Boston has been laying claim to more and more motion picture "world premieres" -a dubious distinction that sometimes is akin to being the first in your neighborhood to contract bubonic plague. Last fall, there was something called 80 Steps to Jonah , which starred Wayne Newton. Contrary to popular belief, it was not a remake of Moby Dick...
With these probable effects of the Patriots' tenancy, the Corporation will, at most, probably do little more than try to appease public opinion by making a show of reconsidering its stadium policy. As likely as not, the final word on the subject will be something akin to a sentence Pusey wrote last week in his letter to the Patriots: "We have given serious consideration to the question and are sorry not to be able to accommodate...