Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bills and shrinking rents. These shared threats induce the mood of solidarity fondly guyed by Noel Coward decades ago: "Though if the Van Dycks have to go/ And we pawn the Bechstein Grand,/ We'll stand/ By the Stately Homes of England." As one should, for there is no parallel to the stubborn integrity of their collections among the stripped and much-looted palaces across the Channel...
...Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk tells how, as an Army colonel in Washington in 1945, he faced the problem of dividing responsibility between Soviet and American troops in liberating Japanese-occupied Korea. Looking at a map, he saw no natural geographical boundaries, so he simply chose the 38th parallel. Richard Nixon remembers how Dwight Eisenhower never publicly criticized John Kennedy for the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, but privately "he used to grit his teeth (and say), 'You know, Dick, I would never have approved a plan without air cover...
...there can be no agreements with the Soviet Union on limitation of U.S. strategic programs, and the most that can be expected is agreement on a kind of agenda for the future. That agenda is to be considered over a period of many years, if not decades. Meanwhile and parallel with such a discussion, new types of arms would be developed, including space systems...
...regional party and, in 1978, his sudden call to Moscow as a member of the Communist Party Secretariat, a group of about ten officials who run the vast Soviet bureaucracy on a day-to-day basis. Gorbachev was given responsibility for all of Soviet agriculture. A rough American parallel would be the appointment of a little-known Governor of, say, South Dakota to be officially Secretary of Agriculture and unofficially a member of the President's inner circle of top advisers...
...when deprived of iron, the diphtheria microbe produces excessive amounts of toxin. "You comb your mind for something you can get a hold on," he says, and the diphtheria-iron connection "leaped right out." Through a trial-and- error process, Kass and his team found that magnesium played a parallel role with Staph. aureus...