Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, Cohen argues that there is a parallel between the forms of political and scientific revolutions; he notes that Newton's Principia was published only a year before the first modern revolution, England's 1688 Glorious Revolution. This concept would make an intriguing book, but Cohen's incomplete discussion of it becomes frustrating...
...Gorbachev told Baldrige it is "high time to defrost the potential of Soviet-American cooperation," but he blamed the limited trade between the two countries on what he called Washington's discriminatory policies and interference in internal Soviet affairs. Afterward, Baldrige emphasized that improvements in trade "will depend on parallel improvements in other aspects of our relations...
...basic preaching of TA is that the mind has three "ego states": Parent, Adult and Child, which parallel the Freudian categories of superego, ego and id. The Adult is the rational problem solver; in the healthy personality, the Adult controls both the Parent, who keeps trying to enforce ancient injunctions, and the fun-loving Child, who is the victim of the stern Parent. The man who says to himself "Now you've done it!" after making a mistake is using his Parent to reprimand his Child, who usually feels powerless and in the wrong...
While administrators deny any parallel between 1969, when Vietnam War protesters engaged in a days-long takeover of the building, and 1985, when anti-apartheid protesters have already occupied the University's Corporation headquarters, they are certainly not taking the recent surge in activism lightly...
...that of Secretary of State George Shultz. At a ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, Shultz said the contra cutoff had dire implications: "Broken promises. Communist dictatorship. Refugees. Widened Soviet influence, this time near our very border." Then he added angrily: "Here is your parallel between Viet Nam and Central America...