Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quipped at the booksellers' convention in Washington that soon "we'll all just meet at the office of the lone remaining publisher." At this point, according to James Milliot, editor of the industry newsletter BP Report, the top six publishing houses reap 60% of all adult-book revenues, in contrast...
THIS disparity between high costs and low benefits partly exists because of a profound bias towards institutional health care in this country. Expensive neonatal hospital units which miraculously save the lives of low birthweight babies are rewarded with glamorous news stories and bigger budgets. In contrast, less popular residential clinics which deliver prevention-oriented prenatal care are massively underfunded...
...film broadcast to millions of Soviets showed charred railroad cars without windows lying at odd angles amid twisted tracks and broken railroad ties. The area was blackened and barren as though it had been bulldozed, a stark contrast to the plush green of trees dominating the landscape...
...risk to their careers, 500 intellectuals, including Ba Jin, China's best-known writer, signed a letter denouncing Li and urging an end to press censorship. Until the hard-line faction emerged victorious, China's official press and television reported with neutral accuracy on the pro- democracy demonstrations. By contrast, last Friday's prime-time TV news was constricted to official statements of support for martial...
Despite its current troubles, China has an immense advantage over the Soviet Union, and it gives Chinese reformers an immense advantage over their Soviet counterparts. There really is a Chinese people; 94% belong to one ethnic group, Han Chinese. By contrast, Russians make up only 51% of the population of the U.S.S.R.; they are one of more than 100 ethnic groups. Those non- Russian nationalities -- in the Caucasus, in Central Asia, along the Baltic, in the Ukraine -- are already straining at the ties that bind them to Moscow...