Word: parallelling
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...John Landy turns his head; Roger Bannister shoots by. On the field it often seems more than a struggle for victory; it seems a struggle for a place in the world, self-assertion through combat. Sometimes it looks sublime?in a dive off the 10-meter platform, on the parallel bars. Sometimes it looks dispassionately cruel. Either way the struggle wins the affection of the crowd, which sees in the exercise of discipline a morality play not necessarily related to sports. Throats go dry merely because a fellow human being is doing all that is remotely possible...
...whole. Under Trudeau, the Liberals shrank to become the party of eastern Canada: they held only two of 77 parliamentary seats from the four provinces west of Ontario. For their part, the Conservatives have only one of 75 seats in the French-speaking province of Quebec. In parallel attempts to remedy that imbalance, Ontario-raised Turner is expected to run for Parliament from British Columbia, while Mulroney is expected to trade his safe seat in Nova Scotia for a constituency in his native Quebec...
...would concern Tories vs. Loyalists, the other the age of revolution. Both would be "mystical," "Virgilian" epics of a "prenatal nation." These were in addition to an "antiCommunist manifesto," a "new form of movie short roughly equivalent to the lyric poem," and some "pieces of writing whose rough parallel is the prophetic writing of the Bible...
Then the ensuing negotiations collapsed last December, after the Soviets walked out of the parallel talks on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) to protest the initial deployment of 572 new American Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe. While the problems besetting strategic arms control have been in part a side effect of the impasse in INF and of the downward slide of Soviet-U.S. relations, the strategic talks were never promising in their own right...
...Philip N Klein '84, $1500 for his paper entitled "Stacktracking: Parallel Acceptance of Deterministic Context Free Languages" Associate Professor John H. Reif...