Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real energy of Africa, and its future, lies outside present government structures. Africans have been even quicker than Western donors to cut themselves off from corrupt government and nonfunctioning states. They simply ignore their governments because they have their own economy. Variously called the "informal sector" or the "parallel" economy, it is the real engine of life...
...fortnight, Jay Leno returns to The Tonight Show to find his competition with late-night rival Arsenio Hall fiercer than any jock grudge match. Consider the events. The javelin backstab. The 100-m bad-mouth. Synchronized sniping. Follyball. And -- given Leno's 33% ratings advantage over Hall -- the uneven parallel talk shows. Who needs Barcelona? These are the games of summer...
Thinking Machines specializes in "massivelyparallel" computers. Traditional computers use asingle microchip to do all of their work, whilemassively parallel computers use huge networks ofprocessors that are knit together in complex webs...
...five-decade career. New York State and federal authorities have charged Clark Clifford, the patrician lawyer who has counseled every Democratic U.S. President since Harry Truman, and his partner-protege, Robert Altman, with conspiracy to defraud by helping B.C.C.I. secretly buy and control two large U.S. banks. In a parallel move, the Federal Reserve announced that it has started a civil action against the pair. Clifford faces up to nine years and Altman up to 31 years in prison, as well as millions in fines and penalties, if convicted. They vehemently denied the charges as "meanspirited" and based wholly...
Even in a sport where champions are tiny, Kim Hwang Suk makes her rivals look like giants. The North Korean is just 4 ft. 4 in. tall and weighs only 68 lbs. On the uneven parallel bars, however, no one stands above her. At the world championships in Indianapolis last September, she scored a perfect 10 to win the event and was called back to the podium twice for bows...