Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defense, the Eagles start Paul Hurley, a veteran senior defenseman who played in the Olympics, and Steve Cedorchuk. The second pair of Barry McCarthy and Ray Bastarache plays only adequate hockey in contrast to the first team's outstanding play...
...Commerce Department reported that in October the nation's balance of trade stumbled into a $63 million deficit. Exports fell 20% from the September level. For all of 1968, the Commerce Department expects a trade surplus of scarcely $1 billion, in sharp contrast to last year's $4.1 billion and the fat $7 billion as recently...
...contrast, aggression by the male model was generally viewed as appropriate and approved by both the boys ("A1's a good socker, he beat up Bobo. I want to sock like A1.") and the girls ("That man is a strong fighter. He punched and punched, and he could hit Bobo right down to the floor and if Bobo got up he said, 'Punch your nose.' He's a good fighter like Daddy...
...contrast to this "drainage" view, the growing body of research provides considerable evidence that vicarious participation in aggressive activities can be highly effective in modifying observers' aggressive behavior, but not in the direction predicted by the catharsis hypothesis. These findings are perhaps not too surprising. It is highly improbable that even advocates of vicarious drive reduction would recommend community programs in which sexually aroused adolescents are shown libidinous movies at drive-in theatres as a means of reducing sexual behavior, or in which famished persons are presented displays of gourmands dining on culinary treats in order to alleviate hunger pangs...
...takeover, in contrast to the bungling inefficiency that has characterized Keita's eight years in power, went off with impressive efficiency. The evening before the troops moved, about 40 army officers gathered in a secluded villa on the capital's outskirts to draw up their plans. They were under pressure: there were rumors that many faced arrest by Keita's armed militia, his so-called Red Guards. After a heated debate, the officers formed a 14-man National Liberation Committee, and troops, half-tracks and Soviet-built T-34 tanks rolled out into Bamako's silent...