Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast to last year's history of burst, frozen pipes and flooded living rooms, which obliged the University to pay almost $100,000 for repairs, this year's more moderate heat reduction policy over winter break apparently resulted in no damage to the Houses...
...contrast, many of the other OPEC members, notably Algeria and Libya, are already running low on reserves. They want to get as much money as possible from every remaining barrel. Iran is especially hard-pressed. The Shah badly overcommitted his oil income on ambitious development projects for his relatively large population, and now needs more money to make ends meet...
Still, Alpine skiing has considerable aesthetic appeal. On a nice day a ride on a chairlift will provide a fantastic display of scenery. An unspoiled trail leading down through a grove of snow-covered trees can be breathtakingly beautiful. The appreciation of the outdoors is a refreshing contrast to the normal attitude toward winter. On a mountain you use the outdoors rather than flee them for the warm confines of Lamont. It is far too easy to sound giddily rhapsodic, but acres of powdery snow (or more frequently, gleaming ice) can inspire enough reverential thought about nature to inspire lifetime...
Briefly, the colder the snow, and the more recent the last snowfall, the more "tooth" the crystals have and the harder the wax you should use. In contrast, older snow and higher temperatures demand a softer...
...called executive assistants. These six men, five of them Mormons, kept a 24-hour-a-day watch over Hughes and screened all his communications. According to Stewart and Margulis, the executive aides acted in effect as his keepers, at salaries ranging as high as $110,000 a year. By contrast, Stewart and Margulis performed menial jobs at relatively low salaries?about $25,000 a year. (They will collect one-third each of the profits from the Phelan book.) They were on the perimeter of the inner circle, but, especially in Stewart's case, they had constant access to the boss...