I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a parallel/an alternative universe
parallel bars
parallel processing
striking contrast/similarity/parallel etc
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a striking contrast between wealth and poverty
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close
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The forces which drive technological development have a close parallel in biological evolution.
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It is my contention, however, that there is a close parallel among birds.
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Sometimes, the closest parallel for a design is many miles distant.
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It is a close parallel of the complaint story of Exodus 17.
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As stated above, there are close parallels here with anti-racist work in education.
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There is a close parallel here with changes to atmospheric pressure; high and low sea-level systems exist in the oceans.
exact
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Galileo was humiliated in Rome in a manner that has no exact parallel in Protestant countries.
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That story has an almost exact parallel with one in the life of Haydn.
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There are no exact parallels between languages. 3.
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In this there is an exact parallel with sufferers from Chemical Dependency denying the severity of their illness.
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The goblet, which has no known exact parallel , was probably made in Murano, an island near Venice.
interesting
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And it presents an interesting parallel to the theory that powerful bureaucracies inhibit the development of parties and legislatures.
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It is the latter which are relevant to the chemical-sensitive patient, and they do provide some interesting and revealing parallels .
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Indeed, the results of very recent work reveal two interesting parallels with the conclusions reached about the psychotic illnesses themselves.
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The developments in thinking about what happens in animal conflicts have some interesting parallels with economists' theorising about human bargaining.
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Mather draws some interesting parallels between the development of agricultural systems and that of forestry.
obvious
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The obvious parallel is with the reaction to Britain's entry into the exchange rate mechanism 18 months ago.
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There is an obvious parallel , therefore, between the bare infinitive's use in exclamations and that after need and dare.
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There are obvious parallels with tobacco regulation, but does any government yet have the will to take this issue on?
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draw
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Mather draws some interesting parallels between the development of agricultural systems and that of forestry.
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John Mortimer made the presentation speech, drawing parallels between Dickens and Dostoevsky.
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The cartoon draws a false parallel between two events.
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Early twentieth-century sociologists also drew parallels between the workings of biological and social systems, some of which were extremely crude.
find
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You do not have to go far to find a living parallel for these organisms.
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Here we find another remarkable parallel with the psychopathology of modern individuals.
work
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The dampers are controlled by small air springs, which work in parallel with the main coil springs.
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Even with many processors working in parallel , much time is wasted waiting for sequential operations to complete.
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In 1850 Joy and Edward Wilson patented twin boilers working in parallel within the same casing.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
draw a comparison/parallel/distinction etc
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Here Locke draws a parallel between modes such as triangles, and substances such as gold and the Strasburg clock.
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I drew a parallel between the grinding plates and the grinding, unresolved pressures underlying this election year.
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I will start by drawing a distinction between what I will call social science history and hermeneutic history.
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It is also clear that it is difficult to draw comparisons between the Western Isles and the developing countries.
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It is now commonplace to draw a distinction between care in and care by the community.
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John Mortimer made the presentation speech, drawing parallels between Dickens and Dostoevsky.
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Why draw a distinction between the adopted and the biological child?
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Kakar finds parallels between the Hindi film and popular myths.
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The 42nd parallel is the northern border of Pennsylvania.
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There are certain parallels between the situation in Europe today and that which existed 90 years ago.
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On the home front some of the parallels are just as strong.
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The parallel with writing is clear.
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You might say there were parallels in my life.
II. adjective
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■ ADVERB
roughly
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The village stands along a single street roughly parallel with the river.
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After all, the two are roughly parallel .
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Two roughly parallel ropes on the ground to jump over.
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It runs roughly parallel to the Gotthard railway line.
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Running north and roughly parallel to the Twyver is the Horsebere Brook.
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bar
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Aitken and Ellis designed a double set of uneven parallel bars unlike any other in the country.
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Lynch had the night of his life on the parallel bars .
column
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You will learn how to create newspaper type documents and those containing parallel columns .
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For this reason, you should use parallel columns only on a page-by-page basis.
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Since we want the left and right columns kept side by side, we will use parallel columns. 1.
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Press 2 for parallel columns with block protect.
computer
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There are practical difficulties with parallel computers .
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Special-Purpose Hardware A few paragraphs back we talked about parallel computers .
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More important was the software - how should a parallel computer be programmed?
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The department has well-equipped laboratory facilities and houses the most advanced parallel computers as well as conducting research at national and international institutions.
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Thus we expect a new kind of parallel computer to develop-one that is heterogeneous in operation.
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Until now, each parallel computer has been so different that users had to re-write applications every time they changed machines.
computing
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Excellent computing facilities ranging from micros and Sun workstations to mainframe parallel computing are available.
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The Syracuse group is developing prototypes of software technologies which will accelerate the take-up of general purpose parallel computing .
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However, despite this agreement on the need for parallel computing , many open issues about these techniques still exist.
course
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Normal entrance requirements for degree courses should apply, and parallel courses should make differentiated demands on students.
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Once, briefly, I saw her outline again, safely on a parallel course .
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After a while, it forked and pursued parallel courses .
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What parallel courses did Bloom and Stephen follow returning?
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Consequently development of the command module continued along two parallel courses .
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He levelled out on a parallel course .
currency
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Member countries retain their respective currencies but there exists a parallel currency which circulates side by side with the national currencies.
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In a parallel currency union, a member country's currency competes with the parallel currency.
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Similarly, a parallel currency union shares certain features with a currency union.
development
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This punning logic became extended by parallel developments in the field of immunology.
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As the cognitive aspects of intelligence are developing, there is a parallel development of affect.
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Overall it is clear that two parallel developments have been taking place in adult education for the unemployed.
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The developments in child language research, however, show parallel development of sign language and spoken language in young children.
lines
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It has two parallel lines drawn across its face.
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These eggs appear as two parallel lines , not necessarily straight, of short brown dashes.
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His innovations developed from a deduction, long accepted by painters, that parallel lines meet at infinity.
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It consists of an ox rib about six inches long, with what looks like a pair of curved parallel lines .
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Previously, Euclidean geometry had stated that parallel lines never meet.
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Glover noted that he sported a late-breaking fancy haircut with a scar shaved in three parallel lines at the front.
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The screen carries a network of parallel lines .
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As Lee proceeded north, so did Hooker on parallel lines .
machine
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The new chip is also to feature in Convex's parallel machine , due late next year or early in 1994.
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Their architecture is quite different from that of parallel machines such as the hypercube.
market
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The parallel markets have grown in size and importance in recent years.
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The huge difference between the official and parallel market prices makes a nightmare out of the monthly shopping budget.
port
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This includes the serial and parallel ports , the hard drive, the screen and finally, the whole machine.
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The only interfaces that are almost universally supplied as standard are the parallel port and the serial port.
process
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Although it may seem strange to simulate a parallel process on a sequential machine, there have been many benefits.
processing
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They are suitable for parallel processing , with one process for each node.
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The Lab is working on futures in parallel processing , distributed data-sharing systems, transaction processing, graphics, multimedia and visualisation.
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This requires both parallel processing and a system of constraint satisfaction, and connectionism offers a way of implementing such a system.
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Real Time Systems Manager software, optimised for parallel processing applications, is also provided.
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These will handle reliable distributed data and transaction delivery, scalable parallel processing and capacity planning and design for database environments.
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OnLine 7.0 is Informix's full-featured massively parallel processing solution, which its co-developing with Sequent.
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The autonomous method permits the program to be written as separate modules, which both simplifies the program and allows parallel processing .
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The use of parallel processing in finite element analysis.
processor
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This consists of in-house seminars on the theory and practice of using multi- and parallel processor machines.
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Programmers can access this memory from outside the parallel processor by using memory mapping.
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The T9000's built-in communications links enable the internal bandwidth of the parallel processor to expand proportionately to the number of processing nodes.
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Surprisingly though, in the normal configuration all of these parallel processors are linked by a standard Ethernet local area network.
structure
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There were parallel structures on the officers' side with chief officers' management teams consisting of the senior departmental heads.
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The parallel structure of processing elements and their interconnections is matched one for one with simple processors and communications links.
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This sequential pattern is consistent with a parallel structure .
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The parallel structure differs substantially from the fold-back structure at the individual nucleotide level.
system
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More powerful systems will be built as multi-processing systems, massively parallel systems, and clusters.
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Most agents at headquarters still believed he would be fully operable once his parallel systems booted up and stopped the repetition.
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There are two parallel systems of government, one of which is public and has no power.
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An employee group hopes to re-form as a software and parallel systems integration firm.
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For these new requirements, platform choices include high-end symmetric multiprocessors, clustered architecture, and massive parallel systems .
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Alliant Computer Inc, which used the 80860 in high-end parallel systems recently filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
track
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Ned went out by a parallel track , the Caples, soas to get back to Queenstown for New Year festivities.
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To some extent the answer is self-evident: State and national politics run along distinct and not always parallel tracks .
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This operates on a second parallel track .
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For example, imagine a man is traveling aboard a faster train overtaking the first on a parallel track .
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In 1986, 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened.
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On a parallel track , the business world is well catered for with several compatible products on the two systems.
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The new system ran as a parallel track for only two years, and all of the students were volunteers.
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Thought Burn Particles of steel squirt from between forward-heated relentlessly rolling wheels and polished every-disappearing never-ending parallel track .
universe
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A parallel universe , mutually incompatible, like matter and anti-matter.
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This wired Brad Pitt will grab you, coming on as he does like an oddly arresting visitor from some parallel universe .
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In the later book, Wells changes his mind and describes an advanced anarchistic society existing in a parallel universe .
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She seemed to live in a parallel universe .
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Her real life glimmered and settled in the parallel universe , where no one here could reach her.
world
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You find a parallel world that knows great beauty but can speak only through a tiny box of plastic and tin.
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But tourist and monk seem to exist in almost parallel worlds .
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a parallel universe
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The airport's two parallel runways are only 750 feet apart.
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The film attempts to follow the parallel story lines of the novel.
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According to Parsytec, the Xplorer offers users a migration path to its GigaCube massively parallel supercomputers which are also to use T9000s.
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At the end of the other will be three parallel lines meaning the runner has to backtrack and give three long toots.
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Most parallel environments operate best when accessed data shows its local point of reference, the Forum says.
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The system will also support message passing models such as parallel virtual machine and the high performance Fortran extensions of Fortran 90.
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Thus we say that the feeling quality between two parallel lines is different from the feeling between two lines that cross.
III. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a period of political change that closely parallels what happened in France in the 18th century
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The railroad tracks paralleled the stream for several miles.
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A damaged sewage line parallels that road.
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Improvements in management information systems should parallel improvements in scientific computing.
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That stunning concept parallels some admittedly far-out astrophysical speculation of the present time.
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The development of this metaphorical structure, however, is gradual, and parallels a stylistic feature of the poetry.
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The new standards are part of a revolution in the teaching of mathematics that parallels the revolution in the teaching of writing.
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This would parallel any company policy on not giving out personal telephone numbers but instead routing calls through the switchboard.
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Thus, it was thought best that the development of the linguistic framework should parallel the development of the workshop activity.