The Faustian parallel struck Mr. Adams as a contrivance.
And yet the parallel struck some as strained — "off target," the Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis, the author of a new biography of the cold-war strategist George F. Kennan, said in an interview.
But an interesting parallel struck me here: I wonder whether the people who go on and on about the much smaller loss at Solyndra, the case that launched a thousand hearings, will get comparably worked about on this case (actually I don't wonder — they won't).
This is because the Sun's rays, which are almost perfectly parallel, strike Earth at different angles during different parts of the year.
But another inside-the-Beltway, historic parallel struck me last week when reports emerged of House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes (R-CA) suddenly jumping from his Uber car into another and covertly racing to the White House grounds, where he met with who-knows-who about who-knows-what.
Now, I find the parallels striking.
Several multi-scale uplifts and basins were developed at the step-over zones between parallel strike-slip fault segments as a result of local extension or contraction.
Harris and Day (1993) performed numerical simulations of rupture propagation along parallel strike-slip faults to investigate a jump over a fault step including the cases taking account of effects of pore pressure changes.
Such tensional stresses are also supported by earthquake mechanisms at shallower depths than 60 km (Fukuyama et al. 1998; Okada et al. 2004), which are mostly normal faulting with trench parallel strikes, around the outer rise region (Fig. 4a).
Before collection, the dry wool was moistened with 0.1% peptone water and rubbed firmly on material to be swabbed by making parallel strikes at right angles then transferred into separate sterile containers with 0.1% peptone solution and put in the cooler box to the laboratory.
These and adjacent valleys follow the general trend of Basin and Range topography with one modification: there are parallel strike-slip faults that perpendicularly bound the central extent of Death Valley.
