Word: twinning
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...it’s in steady supply.” The problem is that the book’s readers are not elementary school students asking what fear is. The stark factual style that seems reasonable when discussing facts is a bit baffling and annoying when Galeano beats the twin drums of truisms and vague generalities. No one is surprised to learn that if Chilean newspapers declared the U.S. government to be unsatisfactory, they would be ridiculed. Slogging through such a catalogue of our sins can become tiresome, but when it does, any decent person is then ashamed...
...second game of Friday's twin-bill, Harvard sophomore Kenon Ronz made quick work of Yale, throwing a complete nine-inning game while surrendering just one run on three hits...
Falling mortgage rates have also done wonders for those who sell them. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the twin towers of mortgage finance, both raised their 2001 growth expectations last month. Countrywide Credit Industries, the largest independent residential mortgage firm, escaped the carnage on Wall Street, gaining 10% in March, but remaining flat...
...long and bitter rematch in the House, where Dennis Hastert and Dick Gephardt are both starting to stammer and Tom DeLay is loaded for bear. Shays-Meehan, McCain-Feingold's House doppleganger, always cruised when it had nowhere to go - now the knives will be drawn. And if the twin bills don't match up exactly when they're through - down to the last amendment? McCain gets a reconciliation fight, with a new vote in both houses...
...journalist in Paris. (Some of them actually liked his still lifes and reserved their scorn for his portraits and figures.) His greatest paintings, Olympia and Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe, which today are among the unquestioned masterpieces of the 19th century and are seen by many as the twin pillars that mark and hold up the entrance to modernism, were pilloried by every man of taste and jeered at by spectators...