Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed to lift by several degrees. He piloted his fringe-topped golf cart, dubbed Cushman One, through the cool morning mist from his home to the office complex. He left his desk in midafternoon to stroll on his beloved beach, where the waves break far out and roll in parallel white lines to the shore. After the long and tumultuous spring, Richard Nixon was recharging...
...recommended in the months ahead, especially likely after the November elections, should be submitted to the following kind of test, using the New York Lindsay administration for illustration. Is the Mayor's current rent re-adjustment plan (netting an immediate 15-25 per cent rent increase) coherent with his parallel suggestions for wage and price controls? Is the Mayor willing to halve the price of housing in return for some freely agreed upon wage restraint? In that way, it is possible to know, in each specific case, just where things stand...
...superior to the South's. ROK troops have proved themselves tenacious fighters in Viet Nam, but at home they must make do with World War II-vintage weaponry. At present the two armies, along with two U.S. divisions, are engaged in a nerve-racking confrontation across the 38th parallel's free-fire zone; though the truce line is guaranteed by the 1953 U.N. armistice, there are sporadic outbursts of shooting...
...running on the democratic socialist ticket. A moderate, pinned between his Maoist brother and his conservative sister; his campaign for an education post is a dolorous exercise. But the conflict is set only superficially in political terms. Bellocchio wrote that the film was conceived in a geometric pattern, on parallel lines. The film's structure emphasizes the interconnections between layers rather than their contribution to an overall theme. The politicial layer lies nearest the surface, but it is little more than a hand-puppet to the film's sexual politics. It is oddly believable when Vittorio's aide Carlo, caught...
...Wednesday, Rogers appeared to bring himself at least parallel to the Nixon line. In a press conference, he declared: "I think that probably the prospects for the next couple of months are not too bright. I do think that the prospects in the long run are still good." He also said that the invasion, by speeding Vietnamization of the war, "does increase the probabilities that the enemy, somewhere along the line, will negotiate...