Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast, Passante said he believed theevent stressed dialogue and cooperation...
Bachrack was a former state senator who, in contrast to Kennedy, had a political base but no a powerful name...
...have blossomed into more than $4 billion, while sales of "natural" products--a term that's slicker than soy paste--have tripled in the 1990s and now exceed $12 billion. The retail organic-and-natural-foods business is gorging itself on 20%-plus annual-sales increases, in contrast to a subsistence diet of 2%-to-3% increases at traditional grocery chains...
...recount these instances of activism to counter the dominant idea that the new "pragmatism" is a paradigm shift. University administrators happily contrast the present times with the bad days of the '60s, but does the deafening silence on such issues as affirmative action represent a true philosophical turn to results-oriented social action or rather a moral failure of the campus left...
Today, by contrast, the campus left largely has not risen to the challege. Meanwhile, graduate programs in California and Texas scale back affirmative-action programs, the U.S. embarks on an uncharted course of welfare reduction in the name of "reform," and the middle class increasingly feels the squeeze from rising economic inequality. The structural forces that have made it more difficult for an increasingly diverse student body to mobilize itself does not mean that students stand unanimously behind a College administration which they continue to perceive as at best distanced and at worst unconcerned with student welfare. And "pragmatism" demonstrates...