Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republicans. In addition, he held on to some of Reagan's key voting blocs, running even with Dukakis among the middle class, winning the majority of independents and most baby boomers. But Bush was hurt by the gender gap. Dukakis won 52% of the votes cast by women, in contrast to 47% for Bush...
...Hoosier Democrats won with a favorite son of their own: Evan Bayh, 32, offspring of former U.S. Senator Birch Bayh. Handily defeating Lieutenant Governor John Mutz, 53, he became the first Democrat to run the state in 20 years. Bayh has served 22 months as secretary of state, in contrast to Mutz's twelve years in the statehouse and senate, but the young Democrat successfully moved away from his father's liberalism and attacked Mutz for backing tax increases and state subsidies for foreign investors...
...contrast, China Forbes is deadly serious and heart-wrenching as Juan's 16-year-old mistress. Her bluesy voice lends real anguish to the scene where Eva kicks her out. Forbes is clearly an up and coming Harvard star...
When the final results were in, no one was surprised that Likud had taken just 40 Knesset seats to Labor's 39. Broader gauged, Likud and its allies on the right had elected 47 deputies, in contrast to the 50 won by Labor and its possible partners on the left. The real surprise winners were the four religious parties. Increasing their parliamentary representation from twelve to 18 seats, they won the deciding voice in who would run Israel for the next four years. They are most likely to team up with Likud, but only after demanding an extremely high price...
...building was designed to serve as headquarters for an expanding conglomerate of "everything stores." These were intended to offer everything from financial services to apparel (a strategy dubbed "socks 'n' stocks"). By the year 2000, the tower was to be occupied solely by Sears' own corporate branches, in contrast to about 60% of the building's 13,000-worker occupancy now. The view from the 110th floor may have been fine, but the vision was blurred. "The tower might have been one of Sears' greatest miscalculations," says Donald R. Katz, author of The Big Store, a 1987 history...