Word: parallels
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...seat two years later, he was its youngest member. He did not make much of a mark in his three terms, and may be best remembered for a speech in 1950 urging that America drop an atom bomb on North Korea unless its troops retreated north of the 38th parallel. Bentsen became one of the youngest members ever to leave the House voluntarily. At 33, complaining ! that the $12,500-a-year salary was not enough to raise three children on, Bentsen returned to Texas to start a life-insurance company with a family stake of $5 million. He eventually...
...that the Brawley case should run in historical parallel to the political progress of Jesse Jackson. Any American with a memory watched in astonishment this spring as thousands of white Americans, blue-collar workers among them, an old reliable class of Wallaceites, took Jackson as their leader. Is there some buried law of collective psychological compensation requiring that each burst of light must be answered by a burst of darkness? That the Jackson victories must have the balancing underhorror of the Brawley rape...
...Harvard group found, for example, that pressure waves travel more quickly when moving parallel to the earth's axis than when they are perpendicular. That could be explained if the solid inner core were a crystal, in which waves would travel at different speeds along different axes, but molten iron is hardly crystalline. Instead, Don Anderson and his colleagues at Caltech's seismological lab postulated the existence of iron rain. Their theory: the polar regions of the core are slightly flattened and tend to be cooler than the equatorial regions. The heat exchange between the two areas may then result...
...rather, assumption, is that because contributions to the Senior Gift do not directly offset the use of University endowment interest, even those who disagree with University endowment policy can in good conscience support the Senior Gift. This almost sounds reasonable, until you hold it up next to the following parallel argument: the South African government determines what part of its annual budget will be spent buying police weapons, housing political prisoners, and doing other unsavory deeds, without reference to those tax dollars collected specifically from American companies doing business in South Africa. Therefore, American companies who pay millions in taxes...
Tanner '88 has had fun trying to confuse the line between the real and the bogus: Tanner has crossed paths on the campaign trail, for instance, with | legitimate candidates like Bob Dole and Pat Robertson. But Altman and Trudeau have gone beyond such gimmicks and turned their parallel world into a sly fun- house mirror. The show skewers a host of familiar political types, from the tough-as-nails campaign manager (Pamela Reed), who fends off late-night calls from Joe Kennedy Jr., to the overzealous staff cameraman, who dogs Tanner's every step with his whirring minicam. The candidate...