Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...altitude intervals of 1,000 ft. The landing is a carefully choreographed minuet of the skies as the plane on the bottom of the stack is cleared to come in and all the others moved down a level. During peak hours at O'Hare, jets use not only two parallel runways, but one that cuts across the other two?putting added pressures on the harassed air controller sweating over his radarscope...
...would find little on which to hone his wit-an effective weapon for getting at realities beneath the appearances. He notes, for example, that Adam Smith, the legendary theoretician of capitalism and unrestricted trade, ended his days as the commissioner of customs in Edinburgh. Galbraith also draws a marvelous parallel between Gogol's Dead Souls and the Equity Funding scandal. In 19th century Russia it was the names of dead serfs that were bought to be palmed off as collateral for loans. In the 1960s Los Angeles executives of Equity Funding Corp. wrote life insurance policies on nonexistent people...
...Zaire carefully before permitting Vance to shore up Mobutu's regime. And the much heralded shift in American policy in Africa should be scrutinized equally carefully, because for all Carter's rhetoric about human rights, at the moment his foreign policy seems based on premises that are dangerously parallel to those that led previous administrations to support repressive and corrupt regimes throughout the world...
Young's civil rights background has greatly influenced his foreign policy views. Perhaps somewhat simplistically, he sees a parallel between racism in South Africa and in the American Old South. Says he: "I've been to South Africa all my life. Every line I hear, I've been hearing for 40 years." But he also feels that, as in the U.S. South, accommodation is possible. Similarly, he finds a parallel between dissidence in Russia today and the U.S. black activism of the early '60s. Says he: "In a sense, the Russian dissidents are a normal outgrowth...
Jordan swings into his spacious office, a six-window, high-status corner formerly occupied by the likes of Bob Haldeman and Alexander Haig, but, he insists, the parallel stops there. He loosens his tie, takes a fast look at the in basket, then lopes into the Roosevelt Room for the daily 8 a.m. meeting of senior advisers. He takes his place at the big table, leaving Presidential Counsel Robert Lipshutz to preside, but Jordan's presence spills beyond his chair. He is recognized as the ascendant power...