Word: akin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Australian-born Hansen, the gamine, androgynous face behind Stereolab's characteristically sultry French vocals. (She's possibly the only person in music today who can make a complaint about faulty sound systems sexy: "Does anyone else hear that rumble?") Her look-but-don't-touch attitude makes her akin to the too-hip aunt of Bjork and Winona Ryder, a coy mistress of equally playful music...
...That's like saying you have a product called TIME magazine, but one distributor gets to rip out ads, and another one rips out some articles and puts in new ones." Gates' logic in this case is faulty because of the metaphor he selected. The Windows operating system is akin to the printing press rather than to TIME magazine. How would TIME feel if there were one company that held a monopoly on the manufacture of printing presses, and that company felt it had a right to dictate what could and could not be printed on all "its" presses? Clearly...
...losses were described as "senseless," and "in vain." A&M's Corps of Cadets (the largest ROTC unit in the United States) was described by Sports Illustrated as "a campus clique whose members shave their heads and wear military-style uniforms." The mass media dishonorably framed Bonfire as something akin to a fraternity prank...
...everyone in Trimble's party is comfortable with his leap. Concerned about letting Sinn Fein in without first seeing some automatic weapons made into plowshares, only 58 percent of the membership approved of the deal. One Ulster MOP called it "akin to turkeys voting for Christmas." Still, what's important isn't so much the weapons as it is the people using them, and this deal is an important and necessary leap of faith to put George Mitchell's historic peace deal back on track...
...framework within which free moral agents can make informed choices. Given his ruling, how can any company of the future know in advance when improving product A is "monopolistic?" Or when serving the consumer is "predatory?" It cannot. And the moral bankruptcy of such schemes is, therefore, akin to all ex post facto legislation. It is no different from any other attempt to punish someone today for an action performed legally yesterday...