Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be better off if students just practice their respective religions in private. This solution treats the house common spaces as public property, analogous to a town square. Religious symbols are prohibited in municipal public spaces because of separation of church and state, and the COHL proposal urged a parallel separation between church and house...
...Running parallel to Schellenberg's work is research being conducted at the New York State Institute for Basic Research into the more devastating Werner's-like disorder known as progeria. People suffering from progeria grow old precociously too, but at a much faster rate; they are claimed by the infirmities of age in their 20s or teens. W. Ted Brown, chairman of the Institute's Department of Human Genetics, believes that progeria, like Werner's, is triggered by a single mutated gene. That genetic miswiring, however, may stimulate activity in the countless other genes that play a role in aging...
...sadly interesting motif of parallel dysfunctions ran through the Hiss family as well. Alger Hiss's father committed suicide rather savagely, slashing his throat with his own razor. Alger's sister Mary Ann also killed herself, by swallowing a bottle of caustic household cleanser...
Though defeated by Robert Matsui by a wide margin in the past two elections, Dinsmore hasn't given up his quest to make principle, not partisanship, the basis for political behavior. Those principles, he believes, dictate the need for a flat tax ("a type of wealth tax parallel to the property tax") and abolishing the deficit ("the unfair shifting to future generations the obligation to pay for programs that benefit current citizens"). A 59% Democratic registration in the Fifth makes it unlikely that this third time will be the charm for Dinsmore...
...There is no parallel at all," junior flanker Jared Chupaila said...