Word: contrasts
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Carter's interest stands in contrast to U.S. attitudes during most of the 31 years of American trusteeship. From 1947 to 1960, the U.S. neglected Micronesia almost entirely. Then, stung by a strongly critical U.N. report, Washington began pouring in money, mostly for education and social welfare. To date, the U.S. has invested more than $250 million in the islands, spawning a huge bureaucracy...
...elevation in the blood of 33% of patients in the early, first stage of the disease. 79% of second-stage cases. 71% third stage and 92% of the cases in the fourth and final stage-when the disease is often far too advanced for any hope of cure. By contrast, they report in the New England Journal of Medicine, the traditional blood test for prostatic cancer, which involves color measurement of a product of the enzyme's activity, identified the rise of enzyme levels in only 12%, 15%, 29% and 60% of their patients at corresponding stages...
...contrast, almost all the current hit shows, like Laverne and Shirley and Three's Company, are written for those in their teens or early twenties. "The younger viewer has more say than the older one in what goes on television," explains Abbie Chapman, director of TV research for Columbia Pictures. "He has a greater vote." Partial proof that the more mature viewer may be alienated is the increasing popularity of public television, which still programs for adults with literate shows like I Claudius. "The public is smarter and wiser than the people who make programming decisions," says former...
Sanders is well-known for his low-key approach to the game, which will be a marked contrast to Heinsohn's feverish style...
Television situation comedy does a pretty good job of airing and disarming class anxieties. Most modern American fiction, on the other hand, remains generally psychological. In contrast, British novels still draw their deepest breaths from society and manners. Wilfrid Sheed, a wily English-born Catholic intellectual, can work both sides of the North Atlantic. Sheed's sharp, entertaining essays and reviews have earned him a reputation as one of America's best literary journalists; he is also a judge for the Book-of-the-Month Club. His previous novels, which include A Middle Class Education, Max Jamison...