Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast to her highly technical duties at Harvard, Margulies said she will be responsible for the management of various business aspects at McDermott/O'Neill...
Second, Canada stands at the opposite end of the spectrum from the U.S. with respect to the structure of its banking industry: in 1995, the five largest U.S. banks controlled 9.7 percent of U.S. domestic assets. In contrast, the five largest Canadian banks controlled 58.1 percent of Canadian domestic assets. Furthermore, Canada's banking is also less regulated: many of the regulatory constraints being challenged by recent U.S. mergers were removed almost ten years ago in Canada--everything from permitting banks to enter stock brokering to selling insurance...
...instruments as personal checks and automatic payroll deposit tend to run much more smoothly. For example, a check written by a New Yorker for a purchase in a store in Los Angeles store with its accounts in a Californian bank can take up to four days to clear. In contrast, a check written in Vancouver on a bank account in Halifax can clear the same business...
...trader, is not particularly grateful. His first thought is to sign up the young Jewish healer for a traveling medicine show. Musa is worldliness made flesh, the sort of opportunist and schemer who if asked to swap his soul for profit would probably respond, "What's the catch?" By contrast, Crace's Messiah-in-training is a bit of a stick: an inept carpenter with a stuffy nose, a functional illiterate, the kind of cheerless guy who has to make camping out with snakes and scorpions even harder than it already is. On the other hand he has an iron...
...megacarriers are making life miserable for discount airlines. Five, including Pan Am, Sun Jet and Air South, have recently failed. The stragglers, which include Frontier Airlines and Reno Air, have lost a combined $200 million. The big airlines, by contrast, logged record earnings last year of more than $5 billion, a rise of 28%, their fourth consecutive annual increase. No wonder. In the past year, business-class fares have increased 16%, and average air fares have risen 9%. Meanwhile, the price of jet fuel, the airlines' biggest cost item, keeps dropping...