Word: parallels
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According to the Pentagon, yesterday's incident began with the Yorktown and Caron steaming eastward, parallel to each other and about three miles apart, past the Crimean peninsula. The Caron was about seven miles off the shoreline and the York-town about...
...more than other applicant groups on SATs and other standardized tests. Studies also show that the number of college-age Asian-American applicants has increased every year during the last decade. With an expanding pool of highly qualified candidates, the number of Asian-Americans accepted should show a parallel rise. And yet, the percentage of Asian-Americans at Harvard has hovered around the 12 percent mark for the last few years...
...Asian Americans per class has risen from 4.8 to 12.2 in the last decade--a testament to the effort of the present Admissions Committee to create a diverse student body. In the future, if the number of children of Asian-American alumni increases (which is now inevitable) without a parallel rise in acceptances, then Asian-Americans will have cause to worry. But for the present moment, there is no concrete evidence to assert the existence of a quota...
Only a handful of hockey teams play below the 37th parallel. For instance, the Los Angeles Kings, Northern Arizona University, of Alabama-Huntsville and U.S. International...
...Attorney Leon Kellner of Miami scheduled a news conference for today at which he is expected to announce the indictment. In addition, the U.S. attorney's office in Tampa, which has conducted a parallel drug investigation of Noriega, has also said it will make "an important announcement" today...