Word: parallelling
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...afforded the same opportunities regardless of his or her family’s financial background. Students at both extremes of the socioeconomic spectrum participate in the same extracurricular activities, live in the same whitewashed rooms, buy the same books, and take the same classes. In the summer, however, that parallel breaks down: students on financial aid are expected to work to pay their student contribution. If a student is planning on interning on Wall Street or taking a paying job elsewhere, coming up with the contribution, while a minor pain, is a reasonable demand. But if a student wants...
...wouldn’t expect a monkey to understand calculus,” Wang points out. A funny parallel to our primate friends, yet still, something that points to an evolutionary growth in the comprehension of advanced conceptual ideas...
...anything at the shop?" Other guy: "Cornetto." Or, Frost (with inane bravado): "I'll drive." Also, on a quick trip back to London, Nick enters a store where the clerk is a zombie. Apparently the plague from Shaun hasn't quite been eradicated. Or maybe the two films are parallel stories in the same temporal universe. (I'll bet the movie also has jokes from the Wright-Pegg TV series Spaced and other collaborations I haven't seen...
...chair of Presencia. “It means so much to them.”Producer Keny Zurita ’09 sees their appearance as significant for the Latino community on a larger scale. “I think they serve as a good parallel for the lives of so many Latinos specifically in the U.S.,” he says. “They sort of went at it a different way, but for so many of us at Harvard, there’s a big Latino emphasis on hard work. And they went in a different...
...warming is too high, especially since the poorest people of the world will suffer most. Surely a Plan B is needed. Now it is time for the big thinkers' geo-engineering proposals to be brought into the frame, not to substitute for carbon dioxide reductions but to run in parallel with them. Steve van Hagen, ST VIGOR DES MONTS, FRANCE...