Word: parallelisms
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Although DormAid does not in any way parallel the services provided by Harvard employees, the company has also made it a point to subscribe to the labor norms present on campus. All DormAid cleaning professionals are paid the same living wage that any similarly employed worker on-campus would receive. In this manner, DormAid is actively creating more jobs for low-income workers in the area and raising their rate of pay a full 25 percent above the off-campus rate...
...adaptation of Witold Gombrowicz’s novel Possessed, the play did an excellent job of bringing a series of eccentric characters to the stage and even held the audience’s attention through parallel plotlines that wrapped up cleanly, if tragically...
...parallel tax code, launched more than four decades ago. Outraged that 155 wealthy families had used loopholes to avoid paying any federal income tax in 1967, Congress in 1969 enacted the first of a string of laws that led to the AMT and were designed to strip away deductions that enabled the rich to avoid taxes. Today, millions of people must calculate their taxes twice--once the traditional way and once the AMT way--and owe whichever calculation is higher. Among other things, the AMT effectively disallows the standard deduction and child deductions as well as deductions of state...
Introduced as “trailblazers” by former Ambassador Swanee Hunt, who is also director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), the two women followed parallel professional paths, rising from the bottom of the correctional agencies they now respectively...
...ONCE SAID THAT THE IDEA THAT DEMOCRACY COULD BE IMPOSED THROUGH FORCE WAS OUT OF A PARALLEL UNIVERSE. GIVEN YOUR EXPERIENCES AT HOME AND NOW IN THE MIDDLE EAST, DO YOU STILL FEEL THAT WAY? Democratic transformation is a domestic task. You can motivate some people [but] you cannot do it from outside...