Word: parallelling
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...course, because "Glengarry Glen Ross" takes place in New York, it usually rains in torrents and the movie takes us clear to the underside of contemporary life like nothing since "Death of a Salesman." Unfortunately, another painful parallel to "Salesman" is that the film uses only a fraction of the potential that the medium bestows upon it. The scenes are limited and we rarely see any kind of action other than frustrated rampages and darkly philosophical dialogues...
...complex strategic change engagements oftoday literally transform an organization from top tobottom. In terms of a project, it involves allthree practice areas on site as part of theproject team, with parallel, interconnecting workstreams which revitalize the organization, theculture, the work process and organizationredesign, which must be, for example, streamliningexisting work processes or developing new ones,usually with the desired goal of increasingeffectiveness or productivity, reducing cost andincreasing revenues in the organization. The tasksinvolve both design and implementation.Implementation is critical-it is at least 75% ofthe effort. More and more teams are usinginformation gained from the strategy component,i.e., knowledge...
Another story with a depressing twist that turns into elation deals with the questions of a hypothetical Black homeland, which Bell says he sees as a very close parallel to Israel. In this story, a new continent appears on which only African-Americans can survive, and a huge debate ensures in the Black community over whether or not to emigrate...
Rather than spew unoriginal cliches, U.C. observers might choose to demand substance from the candidates in their House or Yard region, both before and after elections. The actions of U.C. representatives parallel the rest of human activities in that, left unchecked, they follow the natural human tendency toward self-interest...
...officials are authorized to say in public is that it would be nice if a future Iraqi government were "willing to live in peace with its neighbors and its own people." That is supposed to be a "signal" to Saddam's successors to tread gently north of the 36th parallel...