Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Martinique Compromise, reached by President Ford and French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, put the U.S. and France essentially "in parallel," meaning that each will try to support the other's approach while not abandoning its own. The U.S. went along with French wishes for two OPEC-consumer meetings next year. Between them, though, there will be conferences among consumer countries only, a French concession...
...income tax of up to 91% on all revenues earned from oil pumped in Norwegian fields. Moreover, it has created a state-owned oil company, Statoil, that must be included as a partner in nearly all private drilling ventures. The government flatly forbids drilling north of the 62nd parallel, where most of the nation's 30,000 fishermen live and work. The fishermen fear that oil spills and giant rigs will destroy their fishing banks. Besides being the mainstay of the nation's economic prosperity-at least until the oil boom-the fishermen represent a potent political force...
...father's old medical uniforms. At 20, Annabella married Eduardo Battistella and eventually followed him around South America, where he played the piano in nightclubs. Finally, their savings depleted, she turned from dancing to striptease. In the early '60s, the couple settled in the U.S. Their parallel itinerant nightclub careers continued, and so did their troubled marriage. They became neighbors, close friends and regular bridge companions with Wilbur and Polly Mills in 1973. The Battistellas were divorced in October, but Eduardo sometimes stays in the apartment with Annabella and their four children, aged...
...argues that narcotics addiction is a contagious disease because most addicts acquire the habit by associating with other addicts. It is the government's responsibility, therefore, to incarcerate these addicts just as it would quarantine small pox carriers during a plague. But Friedman argues that this is an invalid parallel. Someone who catches a contagious disease is an unwilling victim. Someone who takes up dope after associating with users has done so because has has seen their lifestyle and chosen to accept it. He may have done so because he is psychologically weak or misinformed, but that same possibility exists...
...basic orientation of profit-seeking into a policy of "sabotage" of production. It must fight against the "inordinate productivity of the machine" by keeping prices high and supply limited. Until more evidence is compiled we must view with suspicion Jencks's belief in the socio-economic beneficence of the "parallel elite...