Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seeking Coexistence. Though Soviet aircraft have avoided the direct combat area over Suez, the Israelis branded the Russian role as "alarming." Said Jerusalem: "The Soviet decision to dispatch what are to all intents and purposes regular units of the Soviet air force against Israel is without precedent and parallel." Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser could hardly be expected to see it that way. At a May Day rally near Cairo, he ridiculed the Israeli charges of Soviet involvement as "a great comedy." Declared Nasser: "The Soviet Union is not helping us launch aggression. It is helping us liberate our occupied...
...first of several unmanned space probes is scheduled to pass close to Jupiter, which apparently has a methane and ammonia atmosphere much like the one that one shrouded the earth. Data from the missions may confirm that the processes now under way in Jupiter's atmosphere parallel those that occurred on earth bil lions of years...
...Manhattan, says Wolff, cooperate with fellow walkers. They might not exchange pleasantries like their small-town counterparts, but they "do take into account the qualities and predicaments of other pedestrians in regulating their own behavior." For instance, they generally follow certain unwritten rules of sidewalk traffic. Some of these parallel the written laws of the road; some simply reflect good old-fashioned chivalry...
...think we are in the midst of a second Post-Reconstruction period. There was then a compromise with the South and racism as there is now. The parallel is frightening...
...Politburo, the supreme decision-making body in the Soviet Union. Its eleven members occupy the key executive positions in the Soviet party and state. The hierarchy that enjoys the strongest representation within the Politburo is the Communist Party's vast administrative bureaucracy, which functions, in effect, as a parallel government in the Soviet Union. For each area covered by the ministerial offices?heavy industry, agriculture, propaganda, etc.?the party maintains a counterpart agency and staff. These full-time party professionals, numbering some 200,000, exercise broad supervisory powers over their governmental opposites. The party's chief means of maintaining...