Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard, and not the individual parents, organize and provide babysitters adding a fee similar to the towel service arangement...
...similar battle has been taking place in Texas, which has the country's No. 2 textbook market. The state board of education drafted guidelines requiring positive teaching about evolution for the first time. But in March, Bible Belters won a last-minute insertion that in addition to evolution, science classes should cover "other reliable scientific theories, if any." That opens the door to "scientific creationism," which offers evidence for the immediate creation of life-forms but does not refer to the Bible. Publishers are now trying to tackle the new requirements as they prepare science textbooks for submission to Texas...
...have hunting, ball games and bars -- plenty of opportunities to practice the hearty, necessary rituals of male bonding. Feminist theory and common sense tell us that women have a similar need to renew gender loyalties. Their problem, traditionally, has been finding suitable places and occasions...
...prices drop, these devices will become ubiquitous. By 1995 the typical car may contain as many as 50 silicon sensors programmed to control antilock brakes, monitor engine knock and trigger the release of safety air bags. Similar sensors are already employed in the space shuttle Discovery to measure cabin and hydraulic pressures and gauge performance at more than 250 separate points in the craft's main engines...
...country's new constitution on its own terms. But observers believed the voting procedures would limit SWAPO's prospects. Example: since about half the voters were illiterate, many were likely to be confused by the fact that nine of the ten contending parties had ballot symbols that were similar to SWAPO's clenched fist...