Word: parallelling
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...most harried moments, Mexico City Bureau Chief James Willwerth suspects that the Mexican political system rivals the Kremlin for having secrets within secrets. But as the current economic and social crisis in Mexico deepened, Willwerth noticed a parallel easing of Mexican reserve toward journalists. "Much of Mexico was forced into the open by its traumas during the past year," says Willwerth, "and, for a change, lots of Mexicans were willing to talk about it in unmasked terms...
...LOOKER SEES what he brings to it, but my family numbers among a bare handful of observers who, eight years ago, briefly saw in Namibia another type of parallel--a Kennedy-esque Camelot dream that ended in ruin. Between 1975 and 1978, when the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance was trying to splice the various majority and minority rules into a constitution at a national convention, my father served as legal counsel to Clemens Kapuuo, president of the moderate delegation and chief of the Herero tribe which, back in 1951, had been responsible for the original U.N. petition...
Throughout her programmed "walk" at the Wright State biomedical engineering lab, Davis was bolstered by props. She was strapped to a parachute harness that supported a third of her 130 Ibs., and she gripped a pair of parallel bars as her legs stepped ahead of her down the 10-ft. walkway. Nonetheless, her achievement marked an important development: the marriage of 200-year-old electrical stimulation techniques to today's high-speed computers...
...said yesterday that the bill would force Harvard to after significantly its policy about hinng faculty. "We're anxious to hire the best person available in the world." Coddington said. Under the new legislation. "If there was one qualified American, we would not be able so hire today's parallel to Einstein," he added...
...FINAL TOUCH Timerman tosses into his salad is the house dressing of pseudo-intellectual speak. The finest example of this blather comes when Timerman is discussing with a friend of his from Buenos Aires the friend's plans for emigrating to Israel. Drawing a parallel with Camus' Stranger. Timerman remarks when his friend tells him his mother was Christian...