Word: lockstepping
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...book's harshest criticism of Harvard wasthat it has "lost much originality and now marchesin lockstep with the dominant trends of theintellectual world...
...second listen to the first few minutes provided an opportunity to more fully absorb the complexities of Lin's remarkable performance. HRO lockstep accompaniment was seamless. The sheer physicality of the performance was mesmerizing. Stretching string players and puffing wind players provided little visual contrast to Lin as he leaned and swayed with his violin, and the stage seemed a kinesthetic blur of motion as the insistent, piercing violin relentlessly piled the tension higher. Huge silences punctuated the cadenza; Lin masterfully made the gaping gaps of sound as arresting and palpable as his pure high melodies or mellifluous low phrases...
...limit the range of postal services. Runyon is certain to raise some hackles this summer when the price of a first-class stamp rises a penny, to 33[cents]. It will be the first such increase since 1995. The price of a stamp has quadrupled since 1971 in virtual lockstep with inflation...
...evening news. What all of them had in common, in addition to sickly hearts and premature deaths, was elevated levels of an amino acid called homocysteine. The patients were part of a study, published in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, that shows an almost lockstep correlation between high homocysteine levels and coronary-disease mortality. And that paper follows more than 50 less publicized studies since 1992 suggesting similar connections...
Organista's experience helps explain why the NAFTA generation is much more poised to break with entrenched economic and cultural traditions. Young people want realism instead of nationalist ideology in their movies and music, and surveys show they prize honesty, competence and practicality over old-fashioned lockstep thinking and knee-jerk anti-Americanism. With AIDS the third leading killer of Mexicans under age 35, they are demanding a more candid discussion in the traditionally prim media of issues like sexuality. The demands have helped spawn a renaissance in Mexican television, cinema and journalism...