Word: parallelism
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...Ultimately, these clashing worldviews converged in one odd respect. Both the majority and minority seemed to be writing from a parallel universe, not quite our own. Kennedy's imagined world of stifled corporations and voiceless labor unions bears no resemblance to the America we live in, where the government pumps tens of billions of dollars into an auto-industry bailout skewed in favor of GM, Fiat and the United Auto Workers. At the same time, Stevens' picture of corporate fat cats oppressing the little guy ignores the revolution in campaign finance and communications that is being wrought by the Internet...
...purposes of sex; she is now facing charges of encouraging and failing to report underage sex. Using Clause 375a of a new Israeli law against human-trafficking that makes it a crime to hold a person "in conditions of slavery," police then tapped Ratzon's phones and began surveillance. Parallel to the police investigation, parents of some of the young women hired private detectives to launch an undercover inquiry...
...lost to that stained-glass refectory forever). But at yesterday evening's Study Break with University President Drew G. Faust (sorry Drew, Larry was a better dancer: see left, with the original caption) and Dean Thomas A. Dingman ’67, students entered a parallel universe of chocolate crepes, hot apple cider, and….a dance floor waiting to be thronged with freshmen letting off Reading Period steam...
Though his argument is not without merit, we worry that Obama’s lack of commitment to protecting democracy will give Afghan citizens a sense that the U.S. is not fully committed to their well-being and that the Afghan government is no more legitimate than the parallel one operated by the Taliban. They, and Pakistan, will rightly continue to hedge their bets and be non-committal to either warring party...
...Maybe their journey seemed more natural to me than to others because it was so parallel to mine,” the father says. “I wanted to marry Billy’s mom the first week I met her, so as the next step in their relationship it seemed perfectly right...