Word: akin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Long-closed doors in the cavernous Old Executive Office Building are now open all day long, and doors connecting separate offices have been pried open. For the first time in years, people congregate in the halls to chat, turning the corridors into something akin to a high school between classes. The West Wing of the White House has been harder to change, since it is organized for "fat old men and their secretaries," as a Clinton aide put it. Last month Clinton asked about tearing down walls to make his horizontal management style work better, but was told it couldn...
...dealt with the unspoken question on everyone's agenda first: "I don't want you to think because I'm the President's wife, it's not O.K. to tell me what you think. I want everything on the table." Senior adviser Ira Magaziner describes his own role as akin to that of a ceo, with Clinton chairing the board. At Mrs. Clinton's insistence, the operation will be tightly scripted, with wall-posted schedules of deadlines for each of the 25 subgroups...
This idea of using "race" as the primary analytical category is akin the use of "gender" in Women's Studies, which makes the normative assertion that gender is a critical and overriding factor in explaining women's lives. Afro-Americanists make the same kind of claim when they argue that race has been the overarching factor in explaining the African-American experience, from the first Transatlantic crossing four hundred years ago to the Brown v. Board decision in 1954 to the latest cinematic reincarnation of Malcolm X. The difference is that whereas feminists and Afro-Americanists are upfront about their...
...Olympic men's basketball finals. The boast that the games showcase amateur athletics was never more hollow than when attached to the U.S. hoop squad. The Dream Team (the N.B.A. 11 best players plus Duke's Christian Laettner) naturally gave opponents the DTs. It was a brutal, pointless spectacle, akin to the Harlem Globetrotters doing their sideshow humiliation, for fun and profit, of a flat-footed pickup team...
Surprise! After the latest constitutional debacle on Oct. 26, when voters rejected yet another complicated package of reforms, the result appears to be something akin to anticlimax. Rather than aggravating French-English tensions, the outcome seems to have left 27 million Canadians relieved that, at least for now, the perennial constitutional issue has been swept off the table. The compromise proposal, supported strongly by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, lost by a nationwide vote of 54% to 45%; it was rejected in six of the 10 provinces, including Quebec. That, noted Brian Falesky, a lawyer in Calgary, Alberta, "was the first...