Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pilots and flight attendants who refused to cross the picket lines. Determined to continue operating, Eastern said it had hired 1,100 accredited mechanics and 5,500 unskilled workers to fill in for baggage handlers and other ground-service workers. But without its pilots, Eastern was nearly paralyzed. In contrast to an average daily schedule of some 1,040 flights, on Saturday the airline managed to get only a few dozen jets into...
...contrast to the present courtordered system in which parents have no input in choosing their children's school, Alves and Willie proposed "controlled choice," a plan which allows parents to select their children's schools so long as each school remains desegregated. Such a plan has been successfully implemented in Cambridge and Little Rock...
...contrast, look at what Jerome Chao '90 and Stanley Lai '91, candidates for the Asian-American Association copresidency, had planned for their organization. Here is what they wrote in their position paper, which they mailed out before the election: "Perhaps we need a sports team. Let us form a team to be proud of... How about card game nights for rummy, poker or bridge? Pictionary...
...contrast between Moscow's splash and Washington's plodding was reinforced by the rhetoric on both sides. While Shevardnadze warned that the Middle East "could be climbing the unpredictable ladder of nuclear escalation," Secretary of State James Baker asserted in a television interview, "I don't think it's ((an area)) that if it incubates further, it blows up." Somewhat testily, Bush also applied the brakes: "I don't want to be stampeded by the fact that the Soviet Foreign Minister takes a trip to the Middle East." Though he praised Shevardnadze's trip as a "good thing," the President...
...that current legal limits for pesticide residues, set by the EPA, are based on the consumption patterns and physiology of adults. Children eat a great deal more food for their body weight than adults. They also consume more fruit, which makes up an estimated 34% of preschoolers' diets, in contrast to 20% for adults'. Youngsters eat six times as many grapes, seven times as many apples and seven times as much applesauce as their parents. The typical preschooler drinks 18 times as much apple juice as the average woman. Thus the child's ingestion of pesticides is likely...