Word: akin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story was printed in the Tribune. It was picked up by the AP wire. Soon I had calls from half a dozen media organs; all apparently regarded our obstinacy as an arrogant, archaic, even quixotic gesture, something akin to kicking the pope out of a restaurant because he wasn't wearing a jacket...
...Royce, a white BMW convertible, a white stretch Lincoln limo and a white Excalibur convertible. Givens married the former Miss Sexy Orlando, and is getting rich through his books (along with Wealth Without Risk, there is the newly released Financial Self-Defense) and financial-advice club by spreading something akin to the Disney spirit. "Life should be lived like a movie" is one of his favorite mottoes...
This week in Atlanta, Vestal will preside as thousands of dissident Baptists plot resistance to the fundamentalist trend. Chapman, for one, thinks the three-day conclave will launch something akin to a schism. At the same time, the fundamentalist leader is confident that few of the 38,000 S.B.C. congregations will join any eventual breakaway...
...proceeds from asset sales into improving education, health care and a crumbling infrastructure -- investments intended to pay off in future economic development. Using the money to pay off foreign debt, as Argentina has done, seems a riskier course. Unloading national assets without attracting new capital is somewhat akin to an individual's selling his house to pay for a new automobile. When the car finally breaks down, there is no nest egg to finance...
...article's central thesis revolves around somthing akin to the "I'm not stupid, you're stupid" argument, writing that the true totalitarians on campus are not the PC adherents but rather anti-PC fighters. This argument, of course, really doesn't disprove the original point; it only indicates that the respondent subscribes to the "classify and conquer" motif, where one side-steps the contention by dismissing the one who made...