Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...critique gets better. It argues our decade has reached a new pinnacle of capitalism because the corporation has crushed or subsumed any thing that might stand in its way. The fifties, for example, had the Beatniks, those whose lifestyles of drug-abuse, idleness and aimlessness stood in stark contrast to white-bread I-like-Ike America...
...Crimson's guards, by contrast, shot a combined 14-of-51 and looked for the shot more often than the pass into the post during the game's final minutes...
Last year in the U.S., more than 4 million unmarried heterosexual couples shacked up, in contrast to only half a million at the end of the supposedly free-spirited '60s. Though living together has become conventional, the report cites studies showing that these unions, in comparison to marriages, tend to have more episodes of domestic violence to women and physical and sexual abuse of children. It notes that annual rates of depression among unmarried couples are more than three times those of married couples...
...experimental drug called recombinant pro-urokinase. In a clinical trial of 180 patients presented at a meeting of the American Heart Association last Thursday, researchers reported that 40% of patients who received the drug within six hours of the start of their stroke made a dramatic recovery, in contrast to 25% in the control group. Dr. Anthony Furlan, a stroke specialist at the Cleveland Clinic who led the study, says the recovered patients "could return to work, take care of their finances, drive...
Teachers have it made. They get to send students to detention, assign homework and give tests. They can issue commands like "compare and contrast" and watch their charges squirm. There is but one drawback to wielding such power: the daunting task of grading essays. For every student who pulls an all-nighter wading through Great Expectations, there is a teacher who has to slog through dozens of tortured expositions on the symbolism of Miss Havisham's aborted wedding feast...