Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast, Nielsen found, opposing network shows that do not lend themselves to shuttle sampling, e.g., dramatic shows, situation comedies, attract consistent levels of "loyalty" during their full-time periods. Moreover, their audiences are likely to see the commercials all the way through...
...then Truong had gone too far. The land had been so thoroughly redistributed that 1,325,000 peasant families now had roughly one-fifth of an acre apiece-a painful contrast to free South Viet Nam, heavily U.S.-subsidized, where any peasant can get seven acres of fertile ground from the government for the asking. Outright rebellion flared in the predominantly Catholic province of Nghean (TIME, Nov. 26), and China's Premier Chou En-lai paid a hurried trip to Hanoi, obviously on a troubleshooting errand like the Russians' trips to Warsaw and Budapest at about the same...
...Northern Ontario Natural Gas Co., paid $300 for stock now worth $750,000. Two insiders invested $12,012 in stock now priced at $3,200,000. Quebec Natural Gas Co., another distributor, made $32.2 million in paper profits, and again the big chunk went to insiders. By contrast, the Alberta government thoroughly policed the Alberta Gas Trunk Line Co., and waitresses and farm hands all got a share of profits that now total $45.9 million...
Henry Treece's Carnival King was an especially unhappy choice for the Theatre on the Green's opening number by contrast with the remainder of the 1957 bill of fare, which includes Moliere's Would-be Gentleman this week and next, and later Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac and Shaw's Man and Superman--all of which present a delightful and heady prospect indeed...
...essential misunderstanding between Hinduism and Christianity is in the contrast between teaching and preaching. By explaining the meaning of Hindu doctrine to his pupil and guiding him in controlled living, the Hindu master hopes to lead him to enlightenment. "That is why the Hindu is always perplexed by Christian preaching, which invariably leads to a point where a decision is called for. While the evangelist's teaching may be accepted and his good work appreciated, the final appeal for a decision to which all this eventually leads is resented as essentially irreligious." Indian Scholar P. J. Mehta speaks...