Word: parallelling
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...Indonesian island of Bali as the local priest, Ida Bagus Putu Wija, communed with the resident spirits about our vague plans to build a holiday home there. Eventually, the Balinese wise man gave us the news that would literally determine the shape of our future villa. In the parallel spirit world of this devoutly Hindu island, our peaceful stretch of riverbank was actually a bustling spirit town, far bigger than the nearby human village...
...also a government professor and the director of the Program on Survey Research; Columbia Graduate School of Journalism professor Thomas B. Edsall; and Morris P. Fiorina, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and political science professor at Stanford. Ansolabehere began with a discussion on campaign finance and the parallel contests of the presidential and congressional elections, stressing the tough decision facing the Republican Party. “Are they going to put the money in races to keep the McCain campaign going, or are they going to put their money in a set of embattled Senate seats...
...largely non-Pashtun north, who bitterly fought Taliban rule during the civil war and are more likely to launch another war than submit to a Taliban-led government. The Taliban today operate in virtually every Afghan province, and in several places they have been able to create a parallel system of government, but they do not have the support of a majority of Afghans. Most still vividly remember the deprivations of Taliban rule, and if given a choice, they would prefer their current situation to that of eight years ago. The international community has already wasted seven years and billions...
...Goff said. “We will have folks like Niall Ferguson and Larry Summers who are in a unique position to speak about the crisis.” Business School professor F. Warren McFarlan ’59, who is in charge of organizing the summit, noted the parallel between the current financial situation and that of when the Business School was founded, six months after the Panic of 1907. “[The aftermath of the Panic] was the beginning of the modern financial regulatory era,” McFarlan said. “It?...
...driver’s ed., the instructor thoughtfully called my parents to give them a casual heads-up on what skill they could help me perfect before the big day. Grateful for this courtesy, my mother anticipated a suggestion that I might put a little extra time into, say, parallel parking. Three point turns, maybe? Hell, even “coming to a slow stop” would have been less shameful than what the instructor actually had to say: “I think Katie might benefit from more practice on her right hand turns...