Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fell's use of Ogam is convenient; as Goddard notes, "It is an epigrapher's delight." Ogam, which consists of clusters of vertical parallel lines positioned above or below a horizontal median, is easily made ambiguous by weathering. In addition, most of Fell's supposed Ogam inscriptions are written without vowels. Goddard says this makes it easy for Fell to read anything he wants...
...Paso proposal, an all-American project, calls for piping gas on a route parallel to the oil pipeline, from Prudhoe Bay almost due south across Alaska to Gravina Point. There it would be liquefied, loaded on tankers, shipped to California, deliquefied and pumped into existing pipelines. Alaska state officials vigorously support the El Paso system, which would bring jobs and investment for liquefaction plants to the area. One key drawback to the plan is that the West Coast already has an ample supply of gas. Another is the possibility of tanker mishaps. The Alcan application, which proposes laying a pipeline...
WHEN T.S. ELIOT reviewed Ulysses for Dial Magazine in 1923, he used the phrase "mythical method" to characterize the literary schema then being developed by his contemporaries--Joyce, Pound, Yeats--as well as by Eliot himself. But while the use of "a continuous parallel between contemporaneity and antiquity," as Eliot explained his term, was setting the literati of America and the British Isles on fire, in far-off Alexandria, Egypt, a poet who is just now receiving the recognition due a major literary figure was fashioning his own "mythical method." Constantine P. Cavafy, the poet of "Greeks in exile...
Birth Control. The government also set out to abolish the illegal "parallel economy" that had flourished alongside the official one. About 1,300 smugglers were thrown in jail. Mrs. Gandhi, on the other hand, declared an amnesty from criminal charges for people who had failed to pay sufficient taxes-often on wealth accumulated from undeclared remittances sent home by Indians living abroad-provided they declared their holdings and paid taxes and a penalty on them. Large sums that would otherwise have been spent on such luxury items as cars and air conditioners flowed into the treasury, adding to foreign exchange...
...fire, going over official documents. At Idaho's Sun Valley, only limited skiing is available, so more guests than usual while away their time trapshooting, riding horses and trading volleys on the tennis courts. In Northern California's Heavenly Valley, San Francisco secretary Lani Palmer practices parallel turns on an inclined treadmill of 30-ft.-wide Mylar carpeting strung between two spinning rollers. Says she: "That carpet makes it seem like I'm skiing through a dentist's office...