Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...failed to mention the most basic parallel between El Salvador and Viet Nam. Once again the U.S., the foreigner, is playing God, picking the good and the bad side and intervening in the internal politics of another country we do not know or understand. The analogy with Viet Nam is not that we might win or lose, but that we, a superpower, can so callously use a poor peasant nation as an unwilling surrogate in our struggle with the U.S.S.R. for the title of toughest country on the globe...
...crude and the price of gasoline. Robert O. Anderson, chairman of Atlantic Richfield, told a group of TIME editors last week: "The drop in the past two months is the largest drop in the history of oil prices. We really have a moment in the industry that is without parallel...
...Harvard fans went crazy after the goal--the crowd was among the many who suffered a tentative awe of Clarkson through the early moments of the game--and parallel to their pick up in tempo, the icemen also stepped up a notch...
...incorrect, in my view, to have the Faculty approve a student government. Why should, in a parallel example. Massachusetts have any say in the constitution of California? Granted, if they choose to do so, the Faculty could have offered the student-composed constitution convention the benefits of their wisdom, but only in the form of advice--not veto. Unfortunately, as the saying goes, beggars cannot be choosers Students could, without Faculty approval, set up a centralized student government and elect representatives to it (Sounds like a Student Assembly to me) But since the Faculty control the money and authority-granting...
During dinner, when the King spoke, all was silent; my comments were drowned in a buzz of conversation. The silences for the King heightened my awareness of Faisal's standard speech. Its basic proposition was that Jews and Communists were working now in parallel, now together, to undermine the civilized world as we knew...