Word: parallelling
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...industrial capitalism. So broad an undertaking requires Marcus to expand the range of materials traditionally available to the critic. Alongside those writers whose interpretation of society appears in overtly imaginative, fictional form, he places social theorists, historians, psychologists, even pornographers, all of whom he sees as engaged in parallel ventures...
...question for seniors became how to fill a given number of pages. Put this way, the senior thesis metamorphosed into the senior-long-research-paper and was that much less attractive. But at this point we must digress for a moment. Parallel to the development of the long specialist paper came two other changes that, taken together, tend to heighten seniors' ambivalence about this new monster. One was the growth of an ideology that holds that student life must be fun every minute. This belief has a surprisingly diverse constituency, running from jocks to aristocrats to the endangered Harvard hipsters...
...idea it would come to this. The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, commonly known as the ethics committee, last week began its preliminary inquiry into whether the CBS correspondent should be cited for contempt or otherwise disciplined by Congress. The Justice Department was pressing a parallel investigation to see if he had violated federal espionage statutes. CBS suspended Schorr from all reporting duties, and he began spending long hours with his network-paid attorney. As a tense and weary Schorr told a group of colleagues at the Washington Press Club: "The joys of martyrdom are considerably overrated...
...from state-managed building repair crews. Some of these repairmen are highly skilled engineers who quadruple their salaries, tax free, by after-hours work. Simes observes that everyone who owns an auto-and there are now 15 million passenger cars on Soviet roads-is a permanent user of the parallel market. While it could take weeks to have a car repaired and months to obtain spare parts, affluent drivers can quickly get what they need by bribing mechanics and service-station attendants. A bottle of vodka is the minimum and usually compulsory bribe...
Even private education is available on the parallel market. Coaching of backward students and conducting cram courses for admission to universities have become big business for moonlighting teachers; their wages normally range from 100 to 145 rubles a month-lower than the 153-ruble wage of the industrial worker. A poll conducted at Moscow University has shown that 85% of freshmen in the math department had used private tutors to prepare for admission...