Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those comparisons with Watergate needlessly complicate an understanding of Ronald Reagan's problems. Those who make the comparison usually disavow too specific a parallel (the new scandal involves zealots, not scoundrels, etc.). Yet to invoke Watergate implies the playing out of an old scenario (looking for the smoking gun), which leads to only one result, whereas Reagan's destiny can still take a number of turns. Finally, Watergate revives that memory of a period when the press got hopelessly muddled over whether its role was to be observer or participant. It is not anxious to revive that issue...
...studies were unrelated, but the conclusions are nearly identical. And the parallel is not a mere coincidence in this era of sexually transmitted diseases and one million adolescent pregnancies a year. The message coming from all sides is clear: stigma and ignorance about sexuality have crippled government response to the most urgent social and health problems facing the country...
MacDonald followed with his 12th goal of the year a minute-and-a-half later when he drove down the left side of the ice and, when almost parallel to the goalposts, flipped a shot into the upper right part of the Cornell...
...that under the law AIDS is a handicap, Justice officials decreed that contagiousness is not. Therefore, they contended, it is permissible to discriminate on the basis of concern over contagion, even if that concern is groundless and irrational. In the Shuttleworth case, Broward County is using arguments that run parallel to those in the Justice guidelines. "They support what we've said all along," says Gordon Rogers, the county's attorney. If it chooses to do so, however, the Supreme Court may rule broadly enough in Arline to invalidate in effect the guidelines, which have so far had little impact...
...Mark and Matthew and, less frequently, between Mark and Luke. To Mann, that is strong evidence that Mark's Gospel derives from the other two. In addition, where Mark and Matthew coincide, both narratives are usually very similar in substance. One of many examples, Mann notes, is the close parallel in Mark and Matthew when they recount Jesus' predictions of the fall of the Jerusalem Temple and the subsequent persecution of Christian believers...