Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only three days after accepting the Democratic presidential nomination in Madison Square Garden, Jimmy Carter stood before his regular, adult Sunday-school class in Plains, Ga., explaining the biblical declaration that "God is love." The contrast between the two settings could hardly have been greater, but Carter was equally at home in both...
...director of social education in Jerusalem, traces the problem to the structure of Israeli education, which is styled on the European model of a highly centralized system, with all control in the Ministry of Education. Elias Saba, senior lecturer at the Arab Teachers' College in Haifa, found the American contrast agreeable...
...grim contrast to the calm in Lebanon's emerging Christian country-within-a-country, the fighting continued to rage elsewhere in a war that combines tragedy with its own brand of occasional bitter comedy. Some items from the notebooks of TIME Correspondents...
...brisk upward march of the economy from the nation's worst postwar recession, the relatively free-spending consumer has so far led the way. In marked contrast, spending by businessmen for new plant and equipment, which is critical to sustaining the business upturn, has been notably laggard. True, corporate capital spending is at last increasing, and most experts believe that it will reach satisfactory levels late this year. But others are worried that the outlays are coming too late, and that as the economy speeds up, industrial capacity will run into production bottlenecks and shortages that will kick...
...contrast, a sole member of Science for the People, Scott Thacher, stood guard at the anti-DNA research booth. He said no more than 100 interested passers-by stopped at his stand...