On a parallel track, the country's big banks have been looking for relief from the costs of serving rural areas.
On a parallel track, we conducted an intensive study of other alumni magazines, not only from Ivy League schools but also from colleges and universities throughout the country.
On a parallel track, several congressional committees are stepping up their efforts to examine the roles played by Visa International, MasterCard Inc., FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc. in the Internet sales, members and staff said.
On a parallel track, but still in a formative stage, are efforts to reintegrate lower-level Taliban into Afghan society "We're on the cusp of beginning, of supporting, the Afghan beginning of reintegration," General Petraeus said.
On a parallel track with the Judiciary Committee, he began to work with Mr. Schumer on a measure to strengthen background checks to prevent criminals and people with psychological problems from obtaining guns.
On a parallel track, he has been slowly establishing himself in A-picture material, such as Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings, The Dark Knight Rises and Rogue One, and next year we'll see him in his first Spielberg movie, Ready Player One, again as the main antagonist.
On a parallel track, Gessen has been a science journalist, writing about AIDS, medical genetics, and mathematics; famously, Gessen was dismissed as editor of the Russian popular-science magazine Vokrug Sveta for refusing to send a reporter to observe Putin hang-gliding with the Siberian cranes.
On a parallel track the Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, is "omnipresent" at the White House, by one official's description, leading the effort with Mr. Lew to plan for emergency actions by the government and the financial system should Congress and Mr. Obama fail to reach an agreement.
On a parallel track, though further behind, is the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which covers only Asian countries and includes China, plus several countries that are also negotiating the TPP.The distant dream is the Free-Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP), which would include both America and China, and possibly cobble together elements of both TPP and RCEP.
On a parallel track was the Community Reinvestment Act.
On a parallel track, the Peabody Diversity Pathway Task Force has worked on diversity and inclusion initiatives across the Peabody Institute.
