Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast to the last three seasons--when she qualified based on her performance in the Northeast Regionals--Papailias had to wait for a call from the NCAA committee this year...
...Republicans cared about designing effective public policy, they would have selected Madigan, who was instrumental in the drafting of the massive 1985 Farm Bill. Gingrich, in contrast, could be the most incompetent legislator in Congress. Of the 26 pieces of legislation he has sponsored during his House tenure, only two have become law. Both of these were resolutions which had no practical effect...
...Armageddon: missiles and bombs that are too unconventional to use. The control of nuclear arms is part of the larger, thoroughly laudable, but often abstract exercise of fine-tuning the balance of terror so as to make it a bit more balanced and a bit less terrible. CFE, by contrast, deals with real weapons, things that actually hurt people: a tank that can crush bodies on a town square; high explosives not measured in kilotons but still able to destroy a building and everyone in it; and that most essential fighting machine, a young man in uniform afraid of dying...
Both Putnam and Clark contrast strongly with their predecessors in administrative style. Putnam won praise as Government Department chair for his handling of sensitive issues like minority hiring and sexual harassment, while Allison--credited with the Kennedy's School explosive endowment growth--was often criticized for ignoring ethical considerations...
...contrast to the good manners of Cromwell, Rich and Henry VIII is the King's belligerent advisor, Cardinal Wolsey (David Condon), who takes a more direct tack in getting More to sanction the King's divorce. Condon stomps his fist on the table, puts out candles with his bare hands and barks out his lines in Sylvester Stallone fashion. Despite all of this activity, however, Condon's energies are in vain. He convinces neither More nor the audience with his overbaked histrionics. By contrast, Margaret Meserve, who plays the Spanish Catholic spy Signora Chapuys, could have borrowed...