Word: parallelling
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...Adil is 67. He stoops shakily to pick through the rubble around the shallow indentation in the ground, a yard across, where the tank shell landed. Rearranging his white kaffiyeh with one hand, he reaches out for a piece of silvery metal. It is a foot long with 10 parallel grooves near one end, part of the shell that killed his sons. Nahid and Sami Salman were Tanzim gunmen. They went to this building on the edge of the village of Kafr Khalil to shoot at the side of the main road into Nablus. The tank's return fire...
...around in a few years time." Moderation? China and Russia aren't rivals - they're "nations that are seeking their way" to capitalist democracy. North Korea or Iraq are merely "nations poorly led." (Where was this guy when they renamed "rogue states"?) He even tossed in an eerie parallel to the current domestic America, about the Cold War ending "the old world map of a red side and a blue side. The new map is a mosaic...
...there?s a big merger brewing, so everyone in his mergers and acquisitions firm will work on Christmas day. But Scrooges have to sleep on Christmas Eve; that's when revelations and atonement come. Jack nods off on satin sheets and wakes in another bed - his own, in a parallel universe, where for years he's been married to Kate (Leoni), the sweetheart he left behind to be a zillionaire. In this nightmare world he has two squalling kids, a cruddy job selling tires in his father-in-law's store, a bunch of bowling buddies...
Their exhaustive efforts ultimately parallel the psychological journey of Peter, who disappears behind a wild thatch of hair while wasting away into a gaunt shell of his former self...
...influence of the club on campus, in spite of what Smith says he perceives as the stigma associated with being Republican on campus. Smith has plans to start an internship program for members in the future as well as to increase the membership of club and visibility, a goal parallel to Porter...