Word: contrastingly
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...modern movie tradition is The Girl: the lovely flower in an arid ethical landscape who wins the hero's heart and puts him in jeopardy. Here Ferris falls for a Jordanian nurse, Aisha (Golshifteh Farahani). In a movie like this, a love interest has two functions: eye candy for contrast and sympathy, hostage bait for the plot. (Yes, Mr. Ferris, you may kill many and risk your own life for your mission. But what if I told you we were going to, heh heh, rough up your girlfriend...
...stark contrast, Harvard Dems President Jarret A. Zafran ’09 said he thought that the night’s debate proved that “John McCain is on the wrong side of history...
...Obama campaign, by contrast, has been tapping the power of the Internet since it began almost two years ago. Last month, when it wanted to alert backers at the University of Florida that Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker would be speaking on Obama's behalf on the sprawling Gainesville campus, it went to cyberspace instead of the quad. "The campaign texted us,"boasts Moller. "They also use Facebook a lot. They make the extra effort to connect with younger voters...
...timing of the move was extraordinary and should be seen as a sign of relative confidence. It came, as Ulrich put it, in "stark contrast with major offshore markets - including the U.S., where regulators temporarily banned short-selling in recent weeks." And leverage - using borrowed money to buy or sell shares - is now viewed by politicians in the U.S. as the root of all financial evils. But the experiment in China is aimed at boosting sentiment in a stock market that has been crushed over the past year, for reasons only partly related to the global equity slump. Regulators...
...Obama campaign, by contrast, continues to invest heavily in positive issue-oriented advertising, including spots that describe Obama's economic and health-care plans. At the same time, Obama has been hitting McCain on the stump, charging that his campaign is running away from the real issues to launch "Swift-boat style" smears. In one recent advertisement, the Obama campaign quotes an editorial saying McCain has shown "erratic" leadership over the past two weeks...