Word: liken
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...stung by the resulting criticism. But she couldn't have been too surprised. Politics in Miami is controlled by older, hard-line Cuban exiles who oppose anything that even slightly hints of dealing with or accommodating the Castro regime. They routinely compare Fidel Castro to Adolf Hitler, and liken the plight of exiles from Cuba to that of Jews who perished during the Holocaust. Moderate Cubans often practice self-censorship in order to avoid the consequences. In the past Estefan has generally kept a low profile. But she said that this time she felt compelled to speak out. "I understand...
Make that Thomas Jefferson. Two Pennsylvania State University lecturers, at work on a book about Stewart, liken her influence to that of Jefferson, the Founding Father of the home-and-garden set, also a dabbler in politics. Stewart, while pleased, begs to differ. "I'm reaching more people than he," she explains...
...would liken it to Harvard football playing against Nebraska," said Coach Don Benson '88. "They were strong and physical. It was a game where we had to pick our victories and triumphs not in terms of score, but by what we tried to accomplish...
What surprised many scientists was that the data appeared to liken Barnacle Bill to andesites, which are volcanic rocks usually found on Earth in the Andes Mountains and other areas of explosive volcanism. Andesites are typically formed by the repeated melting, solidifying and remelting that occurs during the tectonic-plate processes that shape and reshape terrestrial continents. Yet Mars seems to have very few volcanoes and shows no signs of tectonic plates, which suggested to some scientists that the planet wasn't internally active long enough to form andesites. Then what process could have created Barnacle Bill...
PARIS: French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby used to liken his paralysis to being "a working brain kept in a jar. " That was until the publication last week of his 137-page book, "Le scaphande et le papillion" ("The Diving Suit and The Butterfly), which the onetime chief editor for Elle wrote by using his still functioning left eyelid to blink out wor ds to an assistant. But for Bauby, his escape from the hated "jar" came too late. He died Sunday night in a hospital outside of Paris at the age of 44; the cause of death was not announced...