Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end the hostages' where abouts were still secret and their fate uncertain. Diplomats in the State Department's Hostage Task Force were intent on pursuing a quiet, parallel set of negotiations: to arrange religious services for the hostages' second forlorn Christmas...
...Doubletalk also refers to the role in SALT I of Henry Kissinger, who conducted his own, not always parallel, negotiations with Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin in Washington. The first volume of Kissinger's own memoirs, White House Years, published in 1979, exuded contempt for the SALT bureaucracy headed by Smith; Doubletalk retaliates with an agenda of rebuttals and countercharges. Smith, for example, accuses Kissinger of attempting "a one-man stand, a presidential aide against the resources of the Soviet leadership...
...devices are called railguns, not because they sit atop railroad cars, like World War I artillery pieces, but because they consist of two parallel rails which act as both gunpowder and barrel. When the gun is fired, a powerful pulse of electricity goes down one rail. As the current surges to the other rail, it vaporizes a metallic fuse in back of the bullet, creating a cloud of electrically charged particles, or plasma. Simultaneously, it generates a strong magnetic field between the rails, like those in an electric motor. The field exerts a force against the plasma, just...
...must be, Cornell the poet who engages and holds one's attention. Nowhere in surrealism is there a world quite parallel to his. Cornell had no interest in the revolutionary desires of surrealism, in its Sadean heritage or its dandified will to overthrow the bourgeois state. There is no sexual content in his boxes; he wanted his art to return its viewers to childhood, but a pre- Freudian childhood, an infancy without rage or desire...
...pointed out that the consumer price index rose in September at a 12.7% annual rate and declared that Carter's record on inflation and unemployment "is a failure on a scale so vast, in dimensions so broad, with effects so devastating, that it is virtually without parallel in Amer ican history...