Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billion to stabilize prices by buying up excess crops and minerals that drive down prices. Carter is willing to seriously consider such an idea, as are the Europeans, but only after agreements are hammered out in advance on how to stabilize the price of each commodity. In contrast, the developing countries want the fund set up before the mechanics are worked out. The dilemma will be just one of the problems that Jimmy Carter and his peers will struggle with at the summit...
...huge SS-18 that the Soviet Union is already deploying. But, with the improved guidance system, the Mk-12A will be much more accurate than an SS-18 warhead, and as a result will have an 80% plus chance of destroying any hardened target it is aimed at. In contrast, the Soviet warhead has a "hard target kill probability" estimated at less than...
...over the Russians. But it also poses difficult problems in arms control. The advances add one more complex variable to the equation of mutual deterrence. About 75% of the Soviets' 3,500 warheads are carried by land-based missiles that would be vulnerable to the Mk-12A (in contrast, more than 60% of the 8,500 American warheads are mounted on Poseidon and Polaris missiles in submarines). Understandably, the Soviet Union is concerned about the new American warheads. Last week Georgy Arbatov, head of Moscow's U.S.A. Institute, which analyzes American affairs and advises the Kremlin, was spreading...
...easily satisfied. Israel continues to demand "true peace," by which it means not only a renunciation of war on all sides but also the immediate acceptance of a flow of tourism, trade and cultural exchanges between Israel and the Arab states. Egypt's Sadat, by contrast, talks about at least five years of "nonbelligerence" before such a lowering of barriers...
...inform each other; like well-placed guests around a dinner table, they engage naturally in conversation. The juxtaposition of the 1783 Portrait of Benjamin Thompson, by Gainsborough, with Copley's 1788 portrait of two colonels, hung directly below, reveals the English master's direct influence on American painting. The contrast between the gentlemanly rendering of the English officer and the frank force of the American portrait highlights the differing achievements of the two artists. Seymour Slive and Sydney Freedberg have done an expert job in selecting and hanging the paintings in a progression which allows each work to contribute...