Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Parallel committees from Harvard and MIT began planning this event soon after finishing last year's alternative medicine conference, held at Harvard...
...Paleolithic times until archaeologist Olga Soffer came across the kind of clue that, a gender traditionalist might say, it took a womanly eye to notice. While sifting through clay fragments from the Paleolithic site of Pavlov in what is now the Czech Republic, she found a series of parallel lines impressed on some of the clay surfaces--evidence of woven fibers from about 25,000 years ago. Intrigued to find signs of weaving from this early date, Soffer and her colleagues examined 8,400 more clay fragments from the same and nearby sites, eventually coming across the traces...
...development of the components themselves," Franzen says. "If you are a car manufacturer and design your own seats, you will probably have a new generation of seats every 10 or 15 years. But if you go to a megasupplier, it will probably have eight seat generations in parallel development at any given time. This leads to the second big advantage: it frees up engineers to concentrate on the things that make the designs unique because they don't have to do a lot of detailed engineering work...
...same spirit of wanting the adventure and making a difference. There's a tremendous parallel between the Peace Corps and Americorps...
...still refers to black people as coloreds and maintains a subtle quota system whose goal is not human equality but the appearance of social justice. The elevator bosses take their leisure at riotous banquets where the entertainment consists of humiliating minstrel shows. The civil rights movement, in Whitehead's parallel universe, either never happened or has been reversed. Either way the effect is eerie, suggesting that the path to freedom is not inevitable and never has been...