Word: akin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taxes." The scheme is the latest ploy from Virginia Democratic leader Paul Goldman, political aide to Douglas Wilder, the nation's only black Governor. Goldman will present a read-my-lips resolution to this week's meeting of the Democratic National Committee, where its chances are akin to Michael Dukakis' making a comeback. But Goldman's gambit highlights the distinction between his man Wilder (who has slashed spending rather than raise taxes in Virginia) and both the Democratic congressional budget negotiators and Mario Cuomo, who personally favors a federal tax hike for the most affluent Americans. "We have too many...
...answer, basically, is that as Britain's power waned, its ruling elite increasingly saw its country's link with the U.S. as akin to that between ancient Greece and Rome. This teacher-student thesis, with its implication that Washington should take on London's global role, found attentive ears within an Anglophiliac American establishment. Hitchens contends that Britain guilefully dominated the relationship by appealing to ties of blood, class, nostalgia and a common tongue...
...these are pipe dreams akin to Hopper's, and best left at the theater door. If you can overlook the title character, you will enjoy the two hours. And so will your...
...film as a whole revolves around something akin to how individual drivers are at the mercy of large corporate sponsors who--horror of horrors--think that winning is everything. But the elaborate workings of NASCAR sponsorship unfold mysteriously and inexplicably...
...that the Holy Spirit "calls women and men to all ministries of the church" is for the first time elevated to creedal status alongside such fundamental matters as the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And the soothing assertion that the Holy Spirit "sets us free to accept ourselves" is more akin to pop psychology than to the stern confessions of yore. What would John Calvin...