Word: parallelling
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Unfortunately, Wilson's parallel legacy is as one of the most troubled and eccentric rock stars of his era--which, given the profession and the era, is saying something. It was only a few years ago that he seemed to have finally emerged from nearly a quarter-century's worth of debilitating mental illness. (He refused to get out of bed for long stretches of the late '60s and '70s, and in the '80s and early '90s he put his emotional and professional life in the 24-hour-a-day care of a man who was not, perhaps, the most...
...Parallel committees from Harvard and MIT began planning this event soon after finishing last year's alternative medicine conference, held at Harvard...
...Paleolithic times until archaeologist Olga Soffer came across the kind of clue that, a gender traditionalist might say, it took a womanly eye to notice. While sifting through clay fragments from the Paleolithic site of Pavlov in what is now the Czech Republic, she found a series of parallel lines impressed on some of the clay surfaces--evidence of woven fibers from about 25,000 years ago. Intrigued to find signs of weaving from this early date, Soffer and her colleagues examined 8,400 more clay fragments from the same and nearby sites, eventually coming across the traces...
...development of the components themselves," Franzen says. "If you are a car manufacturer and design your own seats, you will probably have a new generation of seats every 10 or 15 years. But if you go to a megasupplier, it will probably have eight seat generations in parallel development at any given time. This leads to the second big advantage: it frees up engineers to concentrate on the things that make the designs unique because they don't have to do a lot of detailed engineering work...
...same spirit of wanting the adventure and making a difference. There's a tremendous parallel between the Peace Corps and Americorps...