Word: parallelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lowering of tensions along the border has allowed Beijing to reduce the size of its army over the past three years from 4 million to 3 million. The extraordinary warming in U.S.-Soviet relations over the past four years also put pressure on the Chinese to make a parallel move. Says a senior State Department official in Washington: "They must respond to the vitality in the U.S.-Soviet relationship...
...would not want to change this country. When you think about conditions across the long panorama, the poverty -- there's never been anything like this country, no parallel for what money and freedom have brought to Americans...
...learn, and there is no sweetspeak to it. "We have to regroup," says Wingard, "and come out fighting to regain our share of the market." Such a transformation, all agree, will take years to accomplish. In the meantime, says a NUMMI vice president, Bill Childs, there's an ironic parallel trend. "Look to the younger Japanese. They don't accept authority automatically any longer. They are more like us. They are our only hope...
...Sharfstein attempted to prove the "obligation" of American Jews to criticize Israel "out of idealism and realism." But instead of justifying open criticism of Israel, he merely showed the confusion of a Jew who "faced the dilemma of whether or not to criticize Israel." His drawing of a false parallel between the general Jewish issue of "Who is a Jew" and the internal Israeli issue of the territories, and his failure to distinguish between gratuitous public criticism and constructive private criticism, lead to an article that contains more rationalization than reasoning...
Besides drawing this false parallel, Sharfstein shows a lack of understanding of the argument against criticism. He suggests that those who discourage public criticism of Israeli policy in the territories do so unconditionally and do not "recognize Israel's faults." This is wrong. Though they are reluctant to attack Israel, they do not deny, publicly or privately, that Israel has its shortcomings; they merely choose to criticize constructively to those who have the power to effect change in Israeli policy--to Israeli leaders and voters and Jewish leaders who may be able to influence Israel's decisions--rather than offering...