Word: parallele
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...Hung Leong, the president of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, emphasized the “parallel status” of TCM and Western medicine and noted the awkwardness of dubbing mainstream Chinese medical practices as “alternative...
...While the American side of 49th-parallel rivalry is one that delights in blind ignorance and the default knowledge that America must be richer, more powerful and more important than whatever nation it is pitted against, not so that of Canada. Our parasitic patriotism is rooted not in what we are, but rather what we?...
...Unicycles. Yorkin and Lear's flourishing careers over the next eight years defied geometry, being two parallel lines that finally intersected. In1959, well after Lear had drifted apart from Simmons (now a script developer at Universal Studios), the new partnership of Tandem Productions was founded. The first joint venture was the movie "Come Blow Your Horn," adapted from a play by former Lear Assistant Neil Simon, which everybody agreed would be a perfect vehicle for Frank Sinatra...
...Their wives gave Yorkin and Lear a two-seater bicycle to mark the launching of Tandem. Two unicycles would have been more appropriate. After the initial box office splash of "Horn," their subsequent movies ("Never Too Late," "Divorce American Style") fared only so-so. They decided to become parallel again, maintaining a loose, collaborative relationship and splitting their pooled earnings...
Engineers then sank 41 parallel tubes diagonally under the foundation. A specialty designed auger--a giant drill bit--was inserted into each tube. A machine turned the augers one at a time to remove small amounts of soil over several months...