Word: paralleling
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...avert devolving into a sub-Nicholson Baker riff, we can shift into lamentation. Sad, sad, sad: New is better; pop culture is disposable and laughs at its ancestors; masturbatory fashionistas dictate and bulletproof their fopaganda. Where can we access the past, without fear of reprisal or dismissal? Ad firms parallel the AI race for the perfect chess computer, in their appropriation of our precious individuality and irony, engineering the perfect corporate android to convince us to match the image in the mirror--the billboard, the TV screen--the one now and forever, until the next profit margin rolls around...
These state laws, and the surrounding controversies, run parallel to the national debate on health care: Next week, when the House of Representatives opens what promises to be a heated debate on managed care and the scope of patients? rights, watch for newly disenfranchised physicians to join forces with powerful ?- and unlikely ?- political allies. The Wall Street Journal reports that many physicians, fed up with their corroding autonomy, are turning away from their Republican roots and appealing to a new group of allies: liberal Democrats. While politics and medicine have coexisted since the dawn of modern insurance policies, the stranglehold...
During late-night negotiations at Karmazin's $11.4 million Trump Tower condo, the two men found common ground. Both were self-made entrepreneurs who prided themselves on rising from modest means to head powerful companies. "Sumner and I have parallel interests," says Karmazin. Says Redstone: "I insisted that Mel come along...
...disturbing of which purportedly offers Pius' description of a revolutionary in 1919: "a Jew. Pale, dirty, with drugged eyes, hoarse voice, vulgar, repulsive, with a face that is both intelligent and sly." The "secret antipathy," writes Cornwell, helped prevent Pius from finding "in the isolation of the Jews a parallel with Christ alone on Golgotha" and thus helped prevent him from finding a voice to defend them...
...initiated by Barak to reassure Arafat after the Palestinians objected to comments by the Israeli leader on West Bank settlements and other issues. The Israeli leader has adopted an approach dramatically different to that of his predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu, seeking to combine concessions to conservative constituencies at home with parallel concessions on other fronts to the Palestinians. He hopes to persuade Arafat to agree to Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank in which settlements are consolidated, in exchange for offering the Palestinians more land near the Gaza Strip. Whether or not he can coax Arafat into such...