Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast, nearly half of the Israeli population is on record as being for a political solution to the conflict by swapping territory for peace. At this moment, there are some 20 peace and civil rights organizations active in Israel. So far as we know, no such organization exists among the Palestinians, or for that matter, in any Arab nation. Such has been the record for 40 years...
Gorbachev, by contrast, says that no nation can be secure if its neighbors -- and principal rival -- feel insecure. He calls this "new thinking," and with good reason. It is another major concession. It is an admission that the expansionist policies of his predecessors were an expensive failure...
...perpetrators of this mischief? At first glance they seem an odd and varied lot. The Pakistani brothers are self-taught programmers isolated from the rest of the computer community. Two viruses exported to the U.S. from West Germany, by contrast, were bred in academia and spread by students. Other outbreaks seem to have come directly out of Silicon Valley. Rumor has it that the SCORES virus was written by a disgruntled Apple employee...
Orange flavor beef ($9.50) is different enough from the other dishes for contrast, but not enough of the dried tangerine peel comes through to lift it to the top of the class. It's a good serving and a good dish, but the best of these use a simpler sauce, with more red pepper to open special nasal passages that are then messaged by the citrus aroma...
...Olympics are the centerpiece of Soviet athletic life and are regarded as a vital means of demonstrating Communism's moral superiority. After the triumph over the U.S. in Montreal, for example, some 347 athletes, coaches and officials were honored with such prestigious decorations as the Order of Lenin. By contrast, sporting life in the U.S. centers on professional teams, and the rewards are commensurate: Edwin Moses, the greatest hurdler who ever lived, earns through fees and endorsements about $500,000 a year, roughly the wage of a journeyman major-league baseball player. Football drains away sprinters to become pass catchers...