Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This contrast between subtlety and silliness, improbability and believability, makes for a thrilling yet well-balanced summer blockbuster. And, best of all, the ever-reliable Ford is there to save the day. Though the action seldom descends below 15,000 feet, and Ford wears a rumpled suit and tie rather than his trademark fedora and bull-whip, as always, his hero triumphs and survives with what is perhaps his greatest treasure: his family...
...high school students coming along who want ownership of their own culture, who want something different from the people who came before them," says Goldberg, who in the past managed Bonnie Raitt and Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. "So this group is going for a female-leaning, optimistic music, in contrast to the grunge, gangsta-rap chapter that is waning...
Second, no one from the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute was contacted for this article. If we had been contacted, Martinez would have discovered that, in contrast to what was reported, Ukrainian students were sent the same medical forms as all other dormitory residents...
...happier." The intense focus of interest in the Canaveral press room, though, was the darkened and disabled Mir, at that moment spinning crazily in orbit with its three-man crew huddled in the escape capsule. The two missions, and the two national space programs today provided a stark contrast in performance that members of Congress are sure to note...
...After giving 1,602 children two doses of either the real vaccine or a placebo last year, doctors from the National Institutes of Health and the biotechnology firm Aviron said today that only 1 percent of the 1,070 children who received the real spray caught the flu. By contrast, 18 percent of the 532 children who got the fake spray got sick. Overall, doctors involved in the 30-year study said the vaccine was effective against both the A and B strains of last year's flu virus and showed no noticeable side effects. Prepared from weakened influenza viruses...