Word: akin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Summerville is a notable exception, and asking most state and local officials how they feel about the social service cutbacks is akin to asking pigs how they feel about bacon. Still, it is rather surprising that the squeals of protest from those most likely to be affected by the slashes in social services have been so muted. "In the late 1960s, talk about reducing social services brought out marchers," says Gabriel Russo, commissioner of human services for New York's Monroe County. "I don't see anybody stirred up now." The utter confusion over the cuts, no doubt...
...pressure from fellow prisoners is heavy. To volunteer to go on strike and then quit would be an overwhelming disgrace, roughly akin to the basic Irish horror of becoming an informer. One prisoner, Sean MacStiofain, at the time the No. 2 man in the I.R.A., started a hunger strike in 1972 and quit after 57 days. He was relieved of his command...
...garbagemen. In most cases, a strike by public employees brings both sides to the bargaining table, and certainly the controllers have indicated their willingness to work with a mediator. But Reagan is going all out in his anti-union drive; such a move would therefore be a "concession," akin to negotiating with terrorists (or hostage-takers...
WATCHING Raiders of the Lost Ark is somewhat akin to strapping yourself into a P-58 Mustang, which, as any old fighter pilot will tell you, was as close as you would ever want to come to strapping yourself to a cannonball. The Spielberg Lucas summertime epic starts off at a hellish pace and then refuses to slow down: there are Nazis and naked savages, reptiles and archeologists, pyramids, legends, car chases, curses, and even--albeit abstractly--a visit from the Supreme Creator. It is, in short something of an adrenalin mosaic: the first movie in a long time that...
...cailing has persisted. Next year, Smith will use a Rockefeller fellowship to travel to Sikkim, a tiny nation north of India, where he will teach science and mathematics to local schoolchildren. "It's a small school, akin to our little red school house," Smith says. He will live isolated in the rural countryside, without heat or hot water...