Word: akin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most important factor in the business-government relationship is that, as in all other areas of Japanese society, agreement is reached only after long discussions. If talk fails, the government can turn to "administrative guidance," a procedure rather akin to American-style jawboning. Even then the private companies can simply refuse to accept the government's recommendations. In the late 1950s, for example, the Japanese government suggested that the nation's automakers join forces to produce a low-cost "people's car" modeled after the Volkswagen in order to crack the U.S. market. The automakers refused...
...observations came from the 120-in. reflector at the University of California's Lick Observatory, enhanced by computer technology. To study such extremely faint objects, astronomers had to focus their light onto a photo-imaging tube akin to the night-vision devices used by the military in Viet Nam. This electronic gadgetry strengthens the signals and then stores them as electronic data in a computer, while it subtracts any disturbing background glare. Eventually the astronomers accumulated enough light to produce spectra, or light signatures, for all four galaxies, but that took considerable doing. The image of just...
THERE ARE OTHER gramatical foibles in the tautly-worded, eight-page letter. In spelling out his opposition to earmarking. Harvard funds for a Third World center akin to those that exist at Princeton, Yale, Brown and Stanford, Bok states, "I would not attach a high priority to any project that might serve, at least symbolically, to emphasize a separation between different races. 'The phrase, "at least symbolically" springs up from the paper, providing only one example of the highly-qualified language characterizing Bok's text. Whereas Afro-Am is definitely not a "questionable field of study" nor "a political concession...
Soviet students are in class six hours a day, six days a week. Because no typewriters are available, research papers are almost unheard of except for the "diploma work"--something akin to a senior thesis. Books are in very short supply. As a result, Soviet students do very little studying, and most learning occurs in the classroom. Cheating is widespread. Most professors look the other way, preferring not to fail students likely to have powerful parents and aware that their own records will look better if all of their students pass...
...bloom was on the roads, the American who would not-or could not-drive a car was dismissed as a sponger or a dimwit, doomed to a life of dependence on alien wheels and, quite likely, celibacy. The nondriver was a rara Avis (though he could not rent one), akin to the kiwi, a bird that cannot fly. In a country that relies so heavily on the auto for its bread and butter and most of its honey, he was seen and often scorned as a kind of self-decreed cripple...