Word: parallelism
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...posturing. Yehia El-Ezabi Cairo You reported that "Bush constantly cites the example of postwar Germany and Japan to argue that it is far too soon to call Iraq a failure." But it is prewar Germany, in the years 1933-39, that gives many of us a frightening, disheartening parallel: How could a nation of well-educated, civilized, sophisticated people believe the rhetoric of a fanatic leader pretending their lives were threatened by obviously weaker neighbors, and follow him into a disastrous pre-emptive war? Nicolas Gessner Paris If I were an American, I would vote for Bush. U.S. citizens...
...Crimson hopes that, when he is running parallel to his blockers, Hartigan’s efforts to bring his weight to bear on potential tacklers will be rendered largely ineffective and his lack of speed exposed...
...shooting near Leverett, a black man wearing a gray jacket or shirt fired a round of shots at 10:30 p.m. on Athens Street—which runs parallel to DeWolfe Street and Banks Street by Leverett Towers—said Frank T. Pasquarello, spokesman for the Cambridge Police Department...
...exes who find it impossible to get along, some psychologists suggest "parallel parenting." That means each household has its own set of rules, and the parents have a minimum of contact and communication. Richard Warshak, author of Divorce Poison: Protecting the Parent-Child Bond from a Vindictive Ex, estimates more than half of divorced parents sharing custody follow this path...
...gymnastics team tumbled from gold-medal shoo-in to fifth-place finisher. The disastrous showing owed largely to the mishaps of one 19-year-old Olympic newcomer, pommel-horse world champion Teng Haibin, who, in rapid succession, stepped twice out of bounds in the floor routine, slipped on the parallel bars and, in a crowning, cataclysmic moment, swung himself right off the high...