Word: akin
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...have this discussion about a change of strategy in September." That hints at a new "product" to be introduced in the fall, as Andrew Card famously described a previous Iraq-strategy launch six autumns ago, and my guess is that the President is planning to support a draw-down akin to the one being devised by the Petraeus staff. But Bush is a stubborn man. He doesn't want to appear to be forced into a draw-down, and especially not by members of his own party. He wants to be able to make his announcement after Petraeus and Ambassador...
...Over the next three or four or five years, this stuff is going to reach a much larger number of people," says Marc Andreessen, whose Netscape browser helped launch the first age of the Internet as a mainstream phenomenon. "It's just getting started." Andreessen describes Facebook as akin to AOL in the 1990s--introducing tens of millions of beginners to a new form of communication. As a co-founder of Ning, a maker of customized social networks, he's betting that many users will eventually tire of the one-size-fits-most approach. But he hastens to add that...
...Aboriginal affairs in decades. A week after an inquiry released its appalling findings on the rampant sexual abuse of Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory, home to 12% of Australia's 455,000 indigenous people, Howard on June 21 outlined a plan to tackle what he says is "akin to a national emergency." Just a few days later, Australian soldiers and police were preparing to move into the most crisis-stricken communities...
...just over 800 now (including retired or otherwise not practicing priests). Nationwide, one in every three Catholic priests is now foreign born, with the fastest-growing group of Hispanic descent. "The priesthood," Baima says, "isn't a normal career, or a career at all. It's more akin to marriage; it's total engagement. There's a personal dialogue in inviting someone to become a priest that you can't put side by side with the law or medicine or police...
...enforcement sent to would-be immigrants throughout the '80s and '90s, and the crime should rank as a misdemeanor, not a felony. Even if we step up border enforcement in the future - as we should - it is true that for a long time, crossing the Rio Grande was akin more to jaywalking than breaking and entering...