Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast, in MPLA-controlled areas, worker and peasant committees were organized to resume production in the countryside and towns. These committees also form communication links between MPLA leadership and the people...
...Africa therefore threw its support to Unita and FNLA. Savimbi, Unita's president, was sympathetic. He told the South African Financial Mail in May 1975 that he hopes "future leaders of Angola will cooperate with South Africa" and that apartheid "is a South African problem" and much misunderstood. By contrast, the MPLA has already provided a base for the operations of SWAPO of Namibia, the Namibian liberation movement...
Unlike the liberals, Carter has not called for curbing the independence of the Federal Reserve Board, though he mildly complains about its tight money policies of the recent past. He favors more vigorous antitrust action but, in contrast to Birch Bayh, Mo Udall and Fred Harris, he does not call for totally breaking up the big oil companies. In his opinion, they should be forced to sell off their coal and uranium production operations, and to choose between being in either the "retail" (gas stations) or "wholesale" (exploration, drilling and refining) end of the business...
...heavy bombers (mostly aging B-52s) to only 135 Russian turbojet Bisons and turboprop Bears. But Soviet airspace is the most intensively defended in the world: 5,000 radar stations, 2,600 fighter interceptors, 12,000 highly accurate antiaircraft missiles. By contrast, U.S. air defense has been cut back. There are only a dozen squadrons of F106 fighters-mostly assigned to the Air National Guard-with a primary mission of intercepting Soviet bombers. With large-scale production already under way of the Backfire-a new, supersonic Soviet intercontinental warplane-Russia will narrow the bomber gap. Meanwhile, the U.S. Air Force...
Money Tenor. The production is geared to the opera's sublime disregard for stagecraft. The sets, also by Ming Cho Lee, are elegant suggestions of an isolated royal redoubt. By contrast, Peter J. Hall's costumes are as palpable as the clothes people wear in Flemish domestic paintings. The two elements blend in Sandro Sequi's direction, which amounts to little more than staging subtly shifting tableaux...