Word: parallel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parallel with the administration's efforts,the admissions office is continuing to step up itsrecruitment of international students...
...hope of the Annex authorities that the two lines of work now running almost parallel may soon merge into one," the editorial read...
These two notions of Harvard parallel the political divide that defines the debate over the nation's most bitterly contested social issues. Liberals tend to be structuralists, arguing, for instance, that welfare is needed because macro-economic forces create little demand for low-skilled workers. Conservatives, by contrast, are usually individualists, arguing, for instance, that the responsibility for paying for the poor falls not on the state, but on the poor themselves, who are responsible for finding their own job in a free market system...
...favorite series of books in the "Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis. In them, Lewis creates a parallel fantasy world with struggles similar to ours, liberally sprinkled with characters derived from mythology and religion, all created and cared for by a child's image of God: Aslan, the great lion. Those very books have been my companions from the first day a quite proper English lady (there's nothing else to call her but that!) read them to my fourth-grade class until now as I am preparing to leave the sanctuaries of college life and childhood behind for good...
...agreement between HLS and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences requires that a certain distance be kept between HLS's Hauser Hall and the new building. As a result, Maxwell Dworkin had to be laid out two degrees from parallel with Pierce--which borders it on the other side...