Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buyer than at any time in history." To support its case, the company pointed to the historic fluctuations in its share of the U.S. auto market: under 14% in 1921, 38% in 1946, a high of 52% in 1962, and 48% for the first eight months of 1968. By contrast, Ford accounted for 60% of auto sales in the early '20s, 19% in 1948, 31% in 1954, and 24% this year. Chrysler, with 26% in 1946, fell to less than 10% in 1962, but rebounded...
...Keeton-O'Connell plan aims to minimize legal hassles over settlements but preserves the policyholder's right to go to court to ask for damages in certain cases. The A.I.A. plan, by contrast, would rule out virtually all liability suits. It would also specifically bar payments for "pain and suffering," which presently account for some of the most generous damage settlements arising out of auto accidents. The practice of suing for pain and suffering, charged the A.I.A., leads to "dramatization of injury" and "panders to the 'jackpot urge...
...says it will start delivering the machines on both a selling and a leasing basis within a year. To woo customers, 3M will, beginning early in 1969, open six display centers across the U.S. One of the most important selling points is that 3M's pioneering copier, by contrast with early color television, boasts high-quality color-in solids and halftones alike...
KEVIN O'CONNOR blends as smoothly into Mayer's conception of Dionysus as the conception does into the play. And as Pentheus, Leon Russom is the perfect physical contrast to O'Connor, while at the same time an exceptionally able and disciplined actor. In his characterization, however, lies a failure of definition that badly undercuts the action of the play. Pentheus must metamorphosize somewhere along the line from a hyper-rationalist into a pathetic, obsessed figure; and Russom, or Mayer, has chosen the wrong moment for the metamorphosis. When Pentheus emerges from the ruins of his palace, razed...
...contrast, the Crimson harriers boast seven runners who can all finish within a minute of the leader. This pattern has held even when the leader has set a record-breaking pace, as happened against Dartmouth a week...