Word: parallelling
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...President, if artful, can transcend mere policy and become an avatar of an era. What difference will the final ascension of the baby-boom generation make in terms of the American spirit, the cultural zeitgeist? The irresistible Kennedy parallel would suggest that the symbolism of a Clinton presidency could someday outweigh its concrete accomplishments. From fashion (a continually bareheaded J.F.K. decapitated the hat industry) to sports (touch football and 50-mile hikes) to dallying with movie stars (Marilyn Monroe suggestively cooing "Happy birthday, Mr. President"), Kennedy defined a style that was half Harvard and half James Bond. But J.F.K. spoke...
...using the current GATT talks to push for quotas on European agricultural production (cereals by 13 million tons, soybeans by 6 million tons), quotas for European agricultural imports (to 5 percent of European consumption) and an immediate end to European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) farm subsidies--without any parallel American commitment...
...brownish-black hairs from the recovered shreds of clothing. Those that came from the Iceman's head were only 9 cm (3 1/2 in.) long -- evidence that humans had been cutting their hair far earlier than anthropologists had believed. More mysterious were the well-defined tattoos: groups of blue parallel lines on the Iceman's lower spine, a cross behind the left knee and stripes on the right ankle. "Since all these tattoos were covered by clothing," says Spindler, "they must have had an inner meaning for the man and not have had the function of identification for other tribes...
Jacob Aaron Broder, as Hamlet, had a rather rough start. His abrupt tone and volume shifts, which were supposed to parallel his mood swings, were instead too rough and affected. As the play progressed, he gained his rhythm and confidence to the point where, when he uttered the line "I want to be a woman," he was believed...
...annual training sessions parallel the instruction that new guards receive. A new guard is considered a "trainee" during the first six months on the job, a probation period during which they may be fired for any reason...