Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saudi draft, the memo named King Fahd overall commander, with Schwarzkopf and the Saudi Defense Minister, Prince Sultan, as his deputies. Schwarzkopf objected -- as did George Bush -- and it was rewritten to establish separate, parallel commands: U.S. troops in one, Saudi and allied Arab forces in the other...
...Arabs. No sooner had word of the attack reached the outside world than politicians, pundits and editorial cartoonists in the U.S. and Europe, including Germany -- and particularly in Israel -- were identifying Saddam with Adolf Hitler, and Kuwait in 1990 with Czechoslovakia in 1938. One purveyor of this parallel even found historical prototypes for King Hussein (Benito Mussolini) and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt (Neville Chamberlain...
NASA critics see a disturbing parallel between the shuttle and the proposed space station. The concept of the station evolved in part to provide a useful mission for the shuttle, which could be employed to carry crews back and forth to the orbiting base. But, say Ronald Brunner and Radford Byerly, researchers at the University of Colorado, the station was more important to the NASA hierarchy as a megaproject to stem the decline in the agency's manpower, which by 1981 had dropped to 22,000 from a high...
...confederation. British Columbia's premier, William Vander Zalm, has already said his province will "seek a different type of confederation," modeled on what Quebec achieves. "We ought to be looking at what it is that might be negotiated for Quebec," he says, "and we should be negotiating on a parallel stream." Premier Grant Devine of Saskatchewan said last week his province too will need "more independence...
Today the peninsula is still divided near the 38th parallel -- half communist, half capitalist; half dependent on Soviet military and economic support, half still reliant on the presence of 43,000 U.S. troops. But the old reasons for these alliances are fading. The Soviet Union is no longer eager -- or able -- to finance the aggressive extension of communism by its satellites, and communism itself is a dying ideology. South Korea has risen from the ashes to become an economic powerhouse capable of assuming most of its own defense against a diminished threat from the North. Yet the U.S. is still...