Word: parallelling
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This undertaking could have come sooner. Last spring, several coaches of women's teams argued that they were getting the short end of the stick in competing with parallel men's teams for practice time, staff support, and University funds. But at least the Department of Athletics acted before it faced the threat of legal action--more than can be said for several other universities that were late in complying...
...background. As a small minority in the Western world, Jews often feel the oppression of Christina culture. Few American Jews don't know a few Christmas carols. Most Jewish children receive a multitude of presents on Hanukah, a minor and traditionally gift-less holiday that has become Christmas's parallel. Because so many work hard to maintain Jewish customs, Jews often disparage those who "sell out" to shopping-mall Santas and the Peanuts Christmas Special...
After I prodded and lobbied Harvard for more than two years, signs finally appeared. These are knee-high and parallel to the direction of pedestrian traffic. Though an improvement on no signs, they are so unobtrusive that they are hard to find and give scant direction to visitors on east-west routes...
...have inherited all of the bizarre flexibility and uncanny strength of his parents; his skinny little frame is apparently composed of some fiber that allows him to slither snakelike and twist himself into pretzelian shapes. At one point, his father holds this spindly little tyke--by the feet--parallel to the ground, ribs sticking out and grin plastered to his face, for several frightening seconds. Although their act verges on the grotesque, this family delivers the most graceful and seamlessly choreographed number in the circus...
...ornery is just a corruption of ordinary. And this eighth-generation Texan has never been ordinary. Not at Harvard, where he roomed with Al Gore, played on the football team and graduated cum laude. Not in his two-decade career as a charismatic character actor. Not in his parallel career as a Texas cattle rancher, or in his passion for polo. And surely not now, when he is Hollywood's new best bet for middle-aged stardom. If there were a word for Jones, it'd have to be extraornery...