Word: parallels
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...Ultimately, these clashing worldviews converged in one odd respect. Both the majority and minority seemed to be writing from a parallel universe, not quite our own. Kennedy's imagined world of stifled corporations and voiceless labor unions bears no resemblance to the America we live in, where the government pumps tens of billions of dollars into an auto-industry bailout skewed in favor of GM, Fiat and the United Auto Workers. At the same time, Stevens' picture of corporate fat cats oppressing the little guy ignores the revolution in campaign finance and communications that is being wrought by the Internet...
...purposes of sex; she is now facing charges of encouraging and failing to report underage sex. Using Clause 375a of a new Israeli law against human-trafficking that makes it a crime to hold a person "in conditions of slavery," police then tapped Ratzon's phones and began surveillance. Parallel to the police investigation, parents of some of the young women hired private detectives to launch an undercover inquiry...