Word: akin
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Even though the Phillipines has developedadvanced agricultural methods akin to those beingused in neighboring countries, it has failed tomake use of them, Aquino said...
This countdown mentality is akin to that of a child reckoning how long he must stay on best behavior until Christmas. The Clinton camp still only half believes the polls -- both the national ones that mostly give them a double- digit lead and their own state surveys that show them clearly ahead in such G.O.P. bastions as Florida, North Carolina and Kentucky. But along with success has come a cautious reluctance to mess with a winning formula. Nothing angers the Clinton cadre like the charge that they are sitting on their lead. "In the past few weeks, we've gone...
What workers are experiencing is an epochal, technology-driven change akin to the industrial revolution in the 19th century. The displaced workers must now reintegrate themselves into an economy that increasingly rewards only highly skilled labor. The question then becomes: How do they make that leap? The answer is not being provided by either politicians or the economy itself, which leaves the unemployed to stare at the enormous gap between a job as a grocery clerk or some high-skill, high-wage position they cannot dream of getting. What to do with these workers, how to make them productive consumers...
...tale about a superrich American landscape connoisseur who creates a Xanadu for himself. "Let us imagine," says Poe's hero, "a landscape whose combined vastness and definitiveness -- whose united beauty, magnificence and strangeness shall convey the idea of care, or culture . . . on the part of beings superior, yet akin to humanity . . ." Yes, one can well imagine Magritte liking that. His work too sets up a parallel world, extremely strange and yet familiar, ruled by an absolutist imagination...
...sleek new high school on the north edge of town has replaced the two stolid, red brick rectangles. And it seems something akin to a death in the family. The desire to stand one last time in the embrace of those weathered friends was simply overpowering...