Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After winnowing the prospects down to half a dozen or so, the recruiter makes his move. Often it is a telephone call to the executive at. his home. The ploy: asking help in finding for a top job in an unnamed company a man whose experience just happens to parallel the executive's own. The reply is often right on the button: "Why. I could handle that job myself." With that opening, the recruiter interviews the prospect at length, conducts a detailed background check, sometimes with the help of a detective agency, and occasionally runs the prospect through batteries...
Noting the recent attempts to establish sovereignty in the Sahara, Mme. Cordebas discussed the proposal to make a partition along the 35th degree parallel. This division of sovereignty, she addded, will probably prove as difficult as negotiating the peace itself. She added that although Algeria needs Saharan oil, the expense of digging for it may prove excessive...
...Parallel with such military and defense plans, the U.S. wants to train many more Vietnamese administrative officers, give them authority to act independently without the present minute, hamstringing scrutiny from Saigon. To educate illiterate villagers to the Communist threat, mobile movie units will roam the countryside and lecturers will constantly tour the towns. On a long-range basis, new efforts will be made to increase rice production still further, encourage greater capital investment in industry...
Gresmann analyzed current tendencies in German political and social life, pointing to parallel trends on the American scene. He especially emphasized the development in West Germany of a two-party system on the American model. Both the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats have abandoned their traditional ideological positions in an attempt to win broader support among all groups in the population, he noted...
...world of Arden. Nor do the fleeting characters present much of a problem: Shakespeare has delineated their roles with a screne certainly. Rosalind, so "full of voluble, laughing grace" (the phrase is Hazlitt's), dominates the forest, and her own investigation of the pastoral tradition is accompanied by the parallel but ultimately limited investigations of the comedy's two commentators, the material fool, Touchstone, and the melancholic traveler, Jaques...