Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LASERS. They are devices that generate high-powered, concentrated beams of light, almost perfectly parallel and of a single wavelength. The light from a lamp, in contrast, is a fuzzy discharge wiggling at different wavelengths and scattering in every direction. Laser beams travel at the speed of light (not surprising: they are light, though not always visible) and can be focused over thousands of miles of space to burn a hole in the skin of a Soviet missile, destroying its guidance mechanism and deactivating its warheads...
...cutting a deal on offensive weapons alone. The Soviets have softened their line on some other issues in order to return to the Geneva talks, but the chances are next to nil that they will give up their insistence on linkage between any agreement on offensive weapons and parallel progress in the talks on defense. It was at Soviet insistence that the communique released by Shultz and Gromyko after their January meeting in Geneva said, "The sides agree that the subject of the negotiations will be a complex of questions concerning space and nuclear arms --both strategic and intermediate-range...
Written by Hitchcock in the '40s, Rope's use of Rupert's superman ideology makes the play a powerful parallel to Hitler's frighteningly effective use of racist and anti-Semitic propaganda. In both case, immature minds grasped on perverse ideologies, which fueled by intense emotional needs, culminated in disaster...
...meat of Packaging is straight out of my eighth-grade Warriner's grammar book. "Use the active voice." "Use parallel construction," and "Use paragraphs as basic building blocks" are some of Yao's rather commonsense suggestions Yao's thesis that most qualified law school applicants don't spend enough time on major mistake." The solution? Packaging of course. But be careful. Yao warns "You are not packaging yourself so that Aunt Molly will hire you to clean her yard once a week, nor are you packaging yourself so that your father will let use his new car." Assuming...
...congressional and baseball seasons usually run in rough parallel: light workouts in late winter; an irregularly quickening tempo culminating in serious legislative battles about the time of the major league playoffs and World Series. But this year the politicians are well ahead of the ballplayers. While pitchers and catchers were just starting to limber up last week under the Florida sun, Congress and the Reagan Administration had already worked themselves into a snarl of midseason intensity. A filibuster was tying up the Senate, an attempted compromise between the Administration and its Democratic opponents fell apart within hours, and partisan tempers...