Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President was obsessed with re-election, and deeply bitter throughout at his Democratic challenger, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.). His machinations during the primary race against Kennedy--pumping huge federal grants into states with upcoming primaries--are well-known, yet Cart-here opts for the literary parallel of his 1980 "Rose Garden strategy": he simply refuses to enter the fray...
Those re-elected Republicans plus another eight moderate GOP senators whose terms expire in 1984, are likely to weave an independent course over the next two years, which may not parallel Reagan's agenda...
...easy now to describe my own feelings as the meeting approached. Without being melodramatic, perhaps I can draw a parallel to the attitude of many servicemen who go into battle, or the feeling of some of my shipmates and me while we served in the submarine force. There was a curious fatalism about the process. Much of the pain and trepidation comes when the original commitment is made, and one has to accept the prospect of serious danger or failure. Subsequently, each passing day can be enjoyed with a sense of thanksgiving that one is spared...
...President Thomas Pownall, 60, launched a counteroffer of about $1.5 billion to buy Bendix instead. In addition, he persuaded United Technologies' chairman, Harry Gray, 62, who over the years had built his company into a $14 billion conglomerate with a string of successful takeover raids, to make a parallel bid for Bendix. The two men agreed that if either company gained control of Bendix, they would divide up Agee's firm between them. But United Technologies' involvement soon raised antitrust questions, and by last week Gray had ceased playing an active role...
...Theological Seminary, a distinguished Bible expert, to supervise the work of nine staff condensers. Despite the inevitable jokes to come about the Six Commandments or the 4.2 Days of Creation, the team wisely left unshrunk the best-known passages, like the 23rd Psalm. Instead they applied the scissors to parallel accounts, such as the dozens of stories concerning Jesus Christ that appear in more than one of the four Gospels. Whole narrative passages are squeezed to a minimum. God's words to Moses out of the burning bush are boiled down by two-fifths...