Word: akin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Swedish friend remarked to me that she found American college students to be more emotionally dependent on their parents than their European counterparts. However, going off to college is akin to a rite of passage in American culture, marking the beginning of a transformation from a dependent child to an independent one and rapidly thereafter to an adult...
...enthusiastic, self-deprecating, with the kind of knowing wit that many baby boomers admire. But switch on a TV camera or get him in front of a crowd, and a mysterious alchemy transforms him into solid oak. This is the Al Gore the public has come to know--something akin to the robotic Abe Lincoln at Disneyland, only less lifelike...
WorldCom is now the country's fourth largest long-distance company--but it's a three-horse race. So instead of fighting for retail customers with AT&T, MCI and Sprint, WorldCom is creating something akin to its own private global telecommunications network. It has made 40 acquisitions in the past five years, including one that netted UUNet, the world's largest provider of high-speed hookups to the Internet. That's why WorldCom agreed to pay $1.2 billion for CompuServe and then traded that company's consumer subscribers to AOL in exchange for ANS, AOL's own networking...
Although the thought of Democrats like Alves looking elsewhere may seem akin to the Red Sox playing in Yankee uniforms, some say there is a simple explanation...
...easy to get comfortable with, but if what happened to a noble creature like the swordfish was the fate of a land-based mammal of equal esteem, it would be headline news and somebody would be in jail. Thanks for dragging the news out of the depths. BILL AKIN Montauk...