Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, most printers come with a choice of either a parallel or serial interface. IBM and compatible owners should probably ask for a parallel interface...
Cranes is also about "coming of age." As the young writer struggles to gain control of his talent, the young adult similarly searches for love and happiness. Like Philip, Leavitt frequently lacks perspective. Still, the parallel somehow makes the excesses of the author and his protagonist a bit more tolerable. Writing, like romance, works best when the participants are mature, confident, and know when to be silent. Both David Leavitt and his main character are still maturing...
THERE IS A parallel between those who may carry a virus and those who may carry a drug in their bodies. In both cases testing is justified by placing the perceived welfare of the community over the right of an individual to be free from invasions of his person. The unreliability of drug tests and the improbability of transmitting AIDS shows the rationale of screening to be merely the face of power...
...nervous public mood was reflected in the headlines that hit newsstands. PARIS PANIC! screamed Le Matin. PARIS-BEIRUT, read Le Parisien Libere. Over the next few days the parallel with the Middle East nightmare was eerily driven home as militant Lebanese Shi'ite Muslims fired on French peacekeeping troops in southern Lebanon, and Colonel Christian Goutierre, 54, the French military attache in Beirut, was gunned down. Responsibility for the assassination was claimed by the Revenge and Justice Front, a group that has no known links to the C.S.P.P.A...
...parallel procedures looked like the first steps toward exactly what the Reagan Administration had repeatedly vowed not to arrange: a straight swap of Zakharov for Daniloff. Washington appeared to be conceding that the cases should be treated as equivalent, despite its repeated thunders that Zakharov is a real spy arrested in the act of trying to buy classified documents while Daniloff is the innocent victim of a crude KGB frame-up that began when a Soviet acquaintance thrust a package of documents into his hands in Moscow...