Word: parallelling
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...addicted to pills, she leaves the care of her two adopted, mentally disabled adult children mostly in Raina's hands. It's a testament to Thompson's intelligence as a storyteller that this sub-portrait becomes as fascinating as the main story. Raina's parent's difficulties have a parallel to Craig's own struggles . Raina describes them as "idealistic at first, but without enough strength to carry through with their commitment...
Jared Genser, Fu’s lawyer, said he was going on to push for “a parallel resolution in the Senate” in addition to “pursuing other ways to put multilateral pressure on the Chinese government...so that China will hear the message not just from...
...fact that Blair's and Bush's governments face parallel but separate inquires from their own legislatures operates, in some ways, like the police tactic of interrogating suspects separately in the hope of finding discrepancies in their testimony. The U.S., for example, started a lot earlier than the British conceding that actual weapons of mass destruction may never be found in Iraq. British officials were apoplectic some weeks ago when the President and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld suggested Saddam may have destroyed his banned weapons before the invasion. Blair, after all, has stuck by the promise that WMD will be found...
...North Fork wineries are mostly located along two parallel roads: Route 25 (Main Road) and Route 48 (Sound Avenue), which run from Aquebogue to Orient. (See box on following page for directions from New York City and New England.) You've hit the right spot when you see WELCOME TO LONG ISLAND WINE COUNTRY signs along Route 25 in Aquebogue...
...Hollywood, a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Anglo-American spy spoof. If Bond and Matt Helm outrageously flout social norms, MM seems to follow an inverted morality, almost defying the reader to accept him. Yet there's something charmingly retro about Bahal's "outlaw" approach. His closest literary parallel is with the Beats: the grim, druggy surrealism of William S. Burroughs, the headlong rush of Jack Kerouac...