Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...privately owned Harvard, by contrast, faculty members are not unionized and do not engage in collective bargaining, says Merry B. Touborg, director of communications for the Office of Human Resources...
...contrast, most of the centenarians they studied had healthy lifestyles. None of them smoked, they avoided risky behaviors, and they stayed active...
...dramatic reforms have helped spark recovery sooner than most experts expected. The government predicts that growth in South Korea will bounce back to an annual rate of 2% by the second half of this year; by contrast, the economy shrank 5.9% in 1998. "There is no country in the OECD that has made such rapid changes," says Donald Johnston, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. "Historians may look back and say this crisis has left a healthy legacy...
...Street and seeing a whole ground floor dedicated to dance music and singles, with pop and rock relegated to the floor above. That a chain store, a reflector of mass consumption tastes, chose to arrange its space that way says something about the music scene across the Atlantic. In contrast, I came back to the U.S. and logged on to cdnow.com, only to find dance music classified under the manufactured catch-all heading "Urban/Electronic...
...only story to take place outside of the Orthodox world, this tale serves as an interesting complement and contrast to The Twenty-seventh Man, the first in the collection. Both stories feature a young man trapped in a situation outside of his control; one survives and the other does not, but more important than the outcome of the plot are the ways in which these two characters cope with their circumstances. One, Pinchas, is trapped in Stalin's vengeful Russia, and the other, Natan, lives in a nation experiencing a different sort of convulsive conflict. One story is told...