Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pilots. Van Nuys airport, the busiest general aviation field in the U.S., is host to an army of 13,557 pilots and an armada of 1,260 planes. It is, in fact, the third busiest airport in the country, after Chicago's O'Hare and Atlanta. By contrast, commercial airfields in the U.S. have shrunk from 660 in 1966 to 400 today, of which a mere 23 serve 70% of all commercial aircraft activity...
...greatest irritants to Philippine sensibilities involve the U.S. bases. Clark Air Base and the Subic Bay naval facility are bastions of affluence that contrast painfully with the poverty and squalor near by. Filipinos are critical of the PX mentality that prevails on these military reservations. At Clark an Olympic-size pool, 18-hole golf course, three movie theaters and 14 base exchange stores serve the 20,000 people who live there. Until U.S. and Philippine authorities cracked down this year, too much of the tax-free stereo equipment, perfume, potato chips and liquor sold at the exchange stores ended...
This recent police performance is a welcome contrast to the occasional bungling previously displayed by terrorist hunters. In September a Bundestag committee disclosed that antiterrorist police had allowed Stoll and the other RAF suspects, Adelheid Schulz and Christian Klar, to get away after keeping them under close surveillance for two weeks. The cops had even photographed the trio boarding a rented helicopter to make aerial reconnaissance surveys of the homes of potential victims. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt ordered a shake-up of the antiterrorist force...
...International Monetary Fund and the World Bank is not so much a meeting as a medium: a chance for about 3,500 bankers and finance officials to indulge in top-level gossiping, politicking and partying. At last week's session in Washington the talk, in refreshing contrast to last year's meeting, was surprisingly upbeat...
...country will import substantially more manufactured goods than it will export. The deficit for the first half of 1978 was $14.9 billion, which will do more damage to the trade balance this year than anything but the $40 billion in oil that the U.S. will import. By contrast, West Germany and Japan are expected to run surpluses in manufactured goods of $49 billion and $63 billion respectively...