Word: parallelling
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...mayor and Secretary of Transportation under President Carter. Despite Washington's munificence, Portland, with an unpopular mass-transit tax on employers and a noisy constituency of diehard automobile fans, has taken pains to economize: once they leave downtown, the trains will speed along an existing right-of-way parallel to the humming Banfield Freeway...
...regional phone companies and the American public will probably adjust to the new world of phone service more easily than they thought last week. H. Trevor Jones, president of PacTel Communications Systems, which is part of the new Pacific Telesis company, which covers California and Nevada, sees a parallel with the 1940s, when utilities stopped supplying light bulbs and people had to buy their...
...good news at home had its parallel abroad, where Americans were enjoying the spending power of the strongest dollar in years. Propelled by the high level of U.S. interest rates and concerns about political instability abroad, the dollar smashed records for three straight days. The U.S. currency reached alltime highs against the French franc, the Italian lira and the British pound, and a ten-year peak in relation to the West German mark. By the end of the week, a dollar was worth 8.59 francs, 1,700.25 lire and 2.8 marks. The pound cost only $1.40. The dollar...
...considerable courage, she arranged protection for the witness. In his testimony, Balang questioned that Galman could have pulled the trigger. "I heard a shot, and when I looked back, the man in white [Aquino] was falling down," Balang recounted. "At that moment, I saw [Galman] just standing there parallel to Aquino, surrounded by members of the Aviation Security Command (AVSECOM). He was smiling. He was partly hidden, but the palms of his hands were open as though he was handing something to them. Then I heard a shot and saw Galman fall down ... from what I saw, Galman...
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