Word: akin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states may not prohibit the dissemination of anonymous campaign literature. Citing free-speech guarantees, the Justices invalidated an Ohio election law-one akin to those found in many states-that required campaign pamphleteers to print their names and addresses on their materials. "Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority," said Justice John Paul Stevens...
...tilted. Until now, no one has challenged Dole's conservatism. However, evidence of Dole's compassion--his support for school lunches, food stamps and AIDS research, for example--is cited by his opponents as proof that he is a closet moderate, which for many hard-core conservatives is akin to saying he's a socialist. If Dole were truly the leader he claims to be, he would be seeking to bring the G.O.P. back to his brand of pragmatism, the kind of Republicanism that flourished before Ronald Reagan. Instead, Dole is slavishly striving to join the rightward lurch...
...employed by members of his generation. Hefigured that he had a good idea of what kind ofskills she's need to get work. It wasinconceivable to him that her skills as apainter, or an animator, could ever help her finda job. In his eyes, dropping pre-med was akin tosuicide, which is probably why he offered tofacilitate things by killing her himself. Hedidn't understand that the prospective employmentlandscape has changed, dramatically. It is notlonger necessary to work for old men inthree-piece suits. A friend of mine who livesdownstairs already works at one of those adagencies where everyone wears...
...whoa be it for anyone to think that e-mail itself is a private medium. The popular metaphor is to think of communication by e-mail as akin to communication by postcard. That is, as an e-mail message is sent across the country, and anybody with enough technical prowess can pick it up, read it and copy it. (Interestingly enough, however, the nature of the Internet protocol makes it virtually impossible for someone along the way to prevent the message from reaching its destination...
...great disservice is being done to Harvard's network users. Letting over ten thousand people falsely assume that their actions are private is akin to placing them all in a police interrogation room with a one-way mirror, and telling all of them that they are merely in a living room, being reflected by a large vanity mirror...