Word: contrasting
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...white (tennis whites)ato emphasize the tan using the ever-subtle >=contrast=Cocoa,=Chocolate,=Tobacco=Brown.=Dude! You re naked!=corn-cob=How To: Curl A Hat Brim=the question=can t find good help=as usual=despite the new racket=awesome,=solid=kick ass.=hilarious=booting=chick=totally shit faced.=VH1 Behind the Music=Tea-vah.=Tay-vah=Teehv-ah<= are idiots and probably own the Teva s with garish floral patterning on the strapping...
...defined the problem and set up guidelinesfor our meetings," Metzl said. In contrast to pastattempts at cooperation between students andadministrators, "everyone was open and sincereabout their feelings," he said...
...knack of talking about Gore. When he stumbles, it is spectacular. Two weeks ago, he made a legitimate claim that he was one of the Internet's earliest promoters and turned it into a audacious boast that he invented it. The gaffe damaged him in an area where his contrast with Clinton is favorable: credibility. Some blame for all this falls on Gore's jumbled and evolving campaign organization, which functions like a board of directors without a chairman, leaving his vice-presidential staff with the task of damage control. Still lacking is what one strategist calls the "mad genius...
Even military experts disagree on how dangerous these missions will be. "Plinking his tanks will be a piece of cake," predicts Merrill ("Tony") McPeak, the retired general who ran the Air Force during the Gulf War. "Plinking," perfected during the Gulf War, used the contrast between sun-warmed tanks and cooler desert sand to help pilots target the tanks with infrared equipment. How well that will work in the forested Balkans remains to be seen. But retired Navy Admiral Leighton Smith--who ordered NATO's first-ever bombing raid, against Bosnian Serb targets in 1994--thinks the tactic...
...that at least in the realm of mating, men and women may be programmed to employ it differently. Males, he suggests, are less likely to forgive a fling because if the woman becomes pregnant, "a man doesn't want to be investing resources in other men's children." In contrast, a woman may be more forgiving of a man's one-time infidelity (assuming that he has already given her a child) but less forgiving of a long-term diversion of material or emotional resources to another woman or a second family. "From an evolutionary perspective," says Buss, "part...