Word: liken
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With all due respect, the attempt made by the staff to liken the Pudding to discriminatory final clubs is absurd. First of all, women are allowed to participate in the Pudding with all of the attendant advantages--including the trip to Bermuda and the coveted alumni connections. Women are members of the band, the business staff and the technical crew. And the co-producer this year is a woman. Moreover, there are an almost unlimited number of other theatrical opportunities for women at Harvard...
Clinton's cave-in may cost him other allies as well, since those who supported him on the BTU tax were feeling duped. Moderate House Democrats who voted for the tax in late May only to watch the President abandon it without a fight last week, were beginning to liken themselves to Charlie Brown and Clinton to Lucy with the football. "I remember the President telling us specifically that if we went out on a limb over the BTU tax," said Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New York, "he would be there with us. But now we don't even know...
Outside experts liken the task of identifying the Trade Center bomb to the inquiry into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, in which debris was scattered for miles. Investigators in that case drew a life-size diagram of the plane on a warehouse floor, then set about reconstructing it piece by piece like a jigsaw puzzle. From that they could determine where in the plane's body the blast occurred, because "the metal would be bent to follow the contours of the vectors of the explosion," says Phillips...
More American women -- rich and poor alike -- are injured by the men in their life than by car accidents, muggings and rape combined. Advocates and experts liken the effect over time to a slow-acting poison. "Most battered women aren't killing to protect themselves from being killed that very moment," observes Charles Ewing, a law professor at SUNY Buffalo. "What they're protecting themselves from is slow but certain destruction, psychologically and physically. There's no place in the law for that...
...while some compared her to Lady Macbeth, I'd liken her to another stage character--my favorite female literary creation, none other than Sophocles' Antigone...