Word: twinning
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...Miami-Fort Lauderdale area alone. Demand for rental housing is at an alltime high, but construction has virtually ceased. Many cities are packed with vast, vacant building sites like the one cleared two years ago in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park for its still-unbuilt 39-story "Twin Oaks" residential complex. Some 900 construction firms went bankrupt from January through July. Many of them were small local outfits, but the failures also include a dozen publicly held firms that do business on a national scale...
...dream feeling that my life is the non-identical twin, a parody, an inferior variant of another man's life, somewhere on this or another earth. A demon, I felt, was forcing me to impersonate that other man, that other writer who was and would always be incomparably greater, healthier and crueller than your obedient servant...
...Republicans sleep in twin beds -some even in separate rooms. That is why there are more Democrats...
JUST A FEW years back, Harvard used to celebrate twin rites of spring: a student demonstration in the Yard, and a Mozart opera at Leverett House. It was too good to last. Some claimed the demonstrations helped send Nixon to the White House. I guess the operas must have helped send Leverett's Master to the New York City Opera. And there matters rested until this year. So with Watergate behind us, as the saying goes, a Mozart revival was clearly past...
...this anyone we know? That question constantly haunts Vadim Vadimych: "I now confess that I was bothered ... by a dream feeling that my life was the nonidentical twin, a parody, an inferior variant of another man's life, somewhere on this or another earth. A demon, I felt, was forcing me to impersonate that other man, that other writer who was and would always be incomparably greater, healthier and crueler than your obedient servant...