Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surrounded by portable classrooms--17 in all. They are being added at the rate of two a year. Inside the school, the results of crowding 540 pupils (expected to be 700 to 800 within the next two years) into a building designed for 290 are readily apparent--a marked contrast with the roominess of the $30 million training school the state built for Mercedes. Throughout the school day, students stand in line to take their turn in one of the six tiny rest rooms serviced by a septic system, which produces its own unpleasant consequences on occasion, since the septic...
...starters, the euro will become a serious challenger to the dollar as a medium of global commerce. Although Europe and the U.S. represent roughly similar economic blocs, with comparable populations, incomes and exports, the dollar accounts for 62% of the world's currency reserves, in contrast to 20% for the European currencies, and is used to buy and sell nearly half the world's exports. That's about to change. "There will be a reallocation, because the dollar is currently overused with respect to the size of the American economy," says Bruno Leresche, head of asset management at Paribas...
Conventional chat rooms, for those who don't live on America Online, are nothing more than screens of scrolling text produced by anywhere from two to a couple dozen users typing comments at one another. The rooms in the Palace, by contrast, are lushly decorated spaces peopled by creatures whose whimsical plumage may be even more important than what they have...
...Bodily Harm is not meant for the layman. Instead, it's more a workbook for the initiated, complete with checklists and common Q&A advice for injurers, their family and therapists. Strong's effort, by contrast, is a richly reported and achingly well-written account that benefits from a reporter's storytelling skills. As she profiles a range of injurers--from Andrew, a star chemistry student at a British university, to Fran, a wealthy suburban New York matron--Strong deftly crafts not a freak parade but a sad march of the familiar...
...These tiny incidents pullulating in a large field may evoke the experience of looking into a dense thicket close up, or the wider one of staring at the Milky Way, but in either case Pollock's imagination seems organically bound to the natural world without actually depicting it. The contrast between the great size of the canvases (One is more than 17 ft. across) and the intricacy of their microforms plays its part too. There is no ideal viewing distance; you must step back to grasp their size and overall energy, but you must also put your nose in them...