Word: parallelisms
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...same parallel can be seen in the drug crisis. Alfred McCoy wrote in the The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia in the early 1970s that the U.S. Government was not actively stemming the import of illegal stimulants from Southeast Asia into the U.S. because it wished to cultivate the political support of local anti-Communist leaders, many of whom had financial interests in drug exports...
...basic "family" of particles is supplemented by two more exotic families, each of which has a parallel structure: two quarks, a type of electron and a type of neutrino. These two extra families are all but extinct in the modern universe, but they apparently existed in the searing heat of the Big Bang, and only accelerators can re-create them. In fact, all of the quarks in all of the families have been found or re-created -- except for the one called the top, which is believed to be the heaviest of all (its mass is at least 90 times...
...true, as Columbia University historian Eric Foner asserts, that "there really is a genuine parallel between Lincoln and Gorbachev" ? That "Lincoln's position, like Gorbachev's, was that a union, no matter how it was formed, cannot be abandoned." Why do we praise Lincoln for launching a war to save the Union but denounce Gorbachev for much milder actions...
...mullahs who survived the purges and won permission to exercise religious functions were often viewed with suspicion by the Muslim laity. As a result, a network of "parallel" mosques sprang up across the Asian republics, where Muslim believers practiced their religion without official imprimatur. In Uzbekistan an undetermined number of Muslims have joined mystical Sufi sects. In Uzbekistan and Tadzhikistan authorities have recently become concerned about the spread of groups espousing Wahhabism, the puritanical sect of the Sunni branch of Islam that first emerged in Saudi Arabia in the 18th century...
There are precedents for monetary integration, though usually conquerors simply repudiated the old currency and introduced their own. Perhaps the aptest parallel with East Germany's situation is the 1957 reintegration into West Germany of the Saar, after it had been incorporated into the French franc area for eleven years. But both sides were operating with realistic exchange rates; besides, the Saar then had 1 million inhabitants, while East Germany still has some 16 million...