Word: akin
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Applying to college is becoming akin to declaring free agency. Ultimately, the issue of finding the most suitable school is obsolescent to a large majority of students seeking aid: The burning question is no longer which is the better school, but which school offers the "better buy." Longtime the domain of professional athletes who have achieved free-agency--the practice is to sign with whichever team makes the best offer (for the running back Rocket Ismail, this meant playing in Canada instead of the NFL)--we cannot ethically superimpose the practice on college admissions...
Part court spectacle, part history lesson, part medical thriller, the play is above all a vehicle for Hawthorne, in a role akin to Lear. His George III even reads lines from Lear to one of his physicians in a scene indicating recovery. The action is set in 1788 and 1789, and the U.S. colonial uprising is just a bitter memory. The piece focuses far less on politics than on family life and the ambitious scheming of the Prince of Wales...
What would happen to the U.S. economy if all its commercial banks suddenly closed their doors? Throughout most of American history, the answer would have been a disaster of epic proportions, akin to the Depression wrought by the chain-reaction bank failures in the early 1930s. But in 1993 the startling answer is that a shutdown by banks might be far from cataclysmic...
There are the college seniors who are out of eligibilty and are going anyway. There are the average underclassmen, who know that turning pro would be akin to career hara- kiri...
...more charged than the desire for more exploration of sociological topics are calls for a political voice akin to that of activists who taught in the early 70s and for a different academic approach, with a more "Afrocentric" slant to class offerings and departmental view points...