Word: paralleling
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...five minutes to elementary school, and I wouldn’t have to meet up with friends in the city until high school, years later. So the thick, tan-painted pillars along Jamaica Avenue held up not only train tracks, but also a mysterious world—one literally parallel to my own, but full of details and experiences unlike any I would know down here...
...Handle" is an understatement. Cut marks on the skulls indicate that the overlying skin, muscles, nerves and blood vessels were removed, probably with an obsidian flake. Then a stone tool was scraped back and forth, creating faint clusters of parallel lines. The modification of the child's skull is even more dramatic. The lower jaw was detached, and soft tissues at the base of the head were cut away, leaving fine, deep cut marks. Portions of the skull were smoothed and polished...
Keel defends her position on the word “slut,” drawing a parallel between sexist terms and racist terms...
...time the student deferrals of the Class of 1953 neared expiration, the war had degenerated into stalemate along the 38th parallel, which formed the original boundary between the North and South. By mid-summer after the Class of 1953 graduated, both sides had signed an armistice...
...Firms’ characterizations of income to investors and to tax authorities have increasingly diverged during the 1990s for reasons that we still don’t fully understand. While the overstatement and manipulation of accounting earnings by firms has come to light, there is growing concern over a parallel development in the underreporting, or creative shielding, of income to tax authorities. As such, both investors and tax authorities seem to be losing out in this system. With the ongoing crisis in confidence in firms’ reported profits, firms too may be losing out as their portraits of economic...