Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the future of the computer industry hanging in the balance, the launches of both Windows 98--and parallel antitrust suits by the Federal Government and some 20 states--were delayed until at least Monday to give the lawyers time to either find their way to common legal ground or determine that no such territory exists. By Saturday afternoon, though, it was clear that--probably by early Monday--Reno's press conference would almost surely be taking place after...
...order to accommodate the diversity of interests coming together under KA, the newly drafted constitution specifies that four of the five positions on the KA board are chairs of committees, each a parallel focus to one of the former groups: culture, education/politics, social events and Yisei...
Primary Colors was supposed to be the Bill Clinton movie a clef of 1998, but the recently released Bille August film of Victor Hugo's 1862 epic Les Miserables, with Liam Neeson and Geoffrey Rush, may better parallel the President's saga...
...Prado, in Spain, is one of the most horrific images ever painted by Goya: the god Saturn devouring one of his children. Mindful that an offspring could get in his way, Saturn made meals of all that he sired. In St. Charles, Mo., last week a modern parallel to that myth may have emerged. If charges are true, Brian Stewart, 31, possesses a similarly cold-blooded compulsion. He is accused of first-degree assault for injecting HIV-positive blood into his infant son, allegedly to avoid paying child support. If the boy is finally eaten away by disease, authorities...
...Khomeini rejected a parallel between his doctrines and the fundamentalism propounded by other Muslim dissidents. He never described himself as fundamentalist. He often said that Islam is not for 14 centuries ago in Arabia but for all time...