Word: parallels
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Phillips was ambitious to climb the corruption ladder-almost a parallel career within the department. After once booking a man who had got into a fight, Phillips said that another cop asked him to forget the whole thing for $300. Phillips obliged. When he was promoted to plainclothesman, after three years on the force, he was given a $1,000 payoff on his first day on the job. His partners gave him some fatherly advice: "You're new here and it would look good for you if you gave the boss a piece of the action." So Phillips handed...
...three researchers-Drs. Ellis Cohen and J. Weldon Bellville and Biostatistician Byron Brown-conducted parallel studies on two groups of women who serve in hospitals. The first study reviewed the miscarriage rates of 159 nurses. Among the 67 operating-room nurses queried, 29.7% of the pregnancies occurring over a five-year period ended in miscarriage; among the 92 nurses assigned elsewhere in the hospital, only 8.8% of pregnancies ended in spontaneous abortion. The second study involved 131 women physicians, 50 of them anaesthesiologists, the rest used as a control group. Only 10% of the pregnancies that occurred in the control...
...Whether convicts are political prisoners or not, a parallel can be drawn between the lives of George Jackson and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Jackson was certainly the victim in life, and quite possibly in his death, of "superiors" who hated and feared his ideology, as Solzhenitsyn is a victim of Soviet bigwigs who fear, or suspect, the power of his pen. Both were subjected unjustly to long, dehumanizing years in prison systems that try to destroy those who won't conform. Solzhenitsyn has survived, so far. Jackson did not but his letters show that his death was a waste...
...parallel move, British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling invited representatives of Ulster's Catholic community to a round-table conference with the province's Protestant leaders. The conference's purpose: to consider reforms that would give the Catholics (who constitute about one-third of Ulster's 1,500,000 population) "an active, permanent and guaranteed role in the life and public affairs of the province." Maudling specified, however, that the conference would not discuss "the constitutional position of Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom"-a reassurance to Ulster's Protestants, who nervously scrutinize...
...called the Gehlen theory "complete nonsense." Tass described it as a "fabrication" aimed at disrupting attempts for an East-West détente in Europe. Certainly the manuscript, which contains a detailed analysis of Soviet political and military goals for the next two decades and calls for a parallel buildup of Western military strength, can only be welcomed by foes of Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik. That would include Die Welt Owner Axel Springer, whose criticism of the Brandt government borders on frenzy. Gehlen's memoirs could also be an overdramatized effort at self-justification...