Word: contrasts
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...court. For instance, the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1973 declared the unequal funding of public schools through local property taxes to be in violation of the state constitution, leading to last week's shutdown of the school system (see EDUCATION); the U.S. Supreme Court, by contrast, was unsympathetic to a similar claim under the federal Constitution. With the highest U.S. court now showing reluctance to impose its will on other institutions of government, there is a broadening opportunity for judges -and legislators-who are closer to the people affected by their decisions...
...CONTRAST TO Burgoyne is the muddle-brained Major Swindon, who lacks the elevated aristocratic perspective. Edelman has done well to cast William Young in the role: Young not only pronounces his lines with an ugly pigheadedness; he even looks like a swine...
...rationale is part aesthetic-the old buildings often have a certain charm and a nostalgic quality-and part economic. To convert a leather factory to handsome apartments in Peabody, Mass., cost $16 per square foot. "By contrast," says William Wheaton, an urban economist at M.I.T., "you cannot build any new housing for less than $22 a square foot, and it looks like hell when it is built." To make conversion even more attractive, the Federal Government will help pay for such projects...
...Apologies. The Washingtonians, by contrast, have pressed ahead. The project has already cost $50 million, and it will require at least $12 million more. By Washington-style accounting, that works out to be little more than half of a B-l bomber or a few miles of interstate highway. Dean Sayre, who often uses his carved Gothic stone pulpit to promote social justice, makes no apologies for the expense. "You're not competing with the poor for a dollar," he has said. "You're building something in order to use it. The instrument and the using...
...also the first King since the fallen Stuarts to rule as well as reign. His grandfather would content himself with such trivia as choosing military uniforms and mastering the intricacies of court etiquette -leaving matters of policy to his Prime Minister, the great Robert Walpole. George III, by contrast, has chosen a First Minister he can dominate, the fat, indolent Lord North, and he involves himself in all kinds of matters, from the appointment of an obscure curate to a country parish to the planning of future military campaigns in the Colonies...