Word: contrasts
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According to Fulbright, every four or eight years, the key foreign policy players in the executive branch are replaced, often by people with little or no experience in the field. The result is what Fulbright calls a "government of amateurs." In contrast, a parliamentary system, where the heads of the various executive departments come from the legislature, has the advantages of consistency and continuity of both policies and actors...
...days sorting photos in the Portland house Allison shares with her boyfriend, a local doctor. Allison and Luce did not know each other before the expedition, and though they are friendly enough, it seems doubtful that their lives from this point will take them in similar directions. The contrast in character is too great. Even the extraordinary physical and mental strengths that each possesses are of sharply divergent kinds. Luce is a big, powerful, easygoing soul who for several years ran her own restaurant in Seattle. When the restaurant began to consume her life, she quit cold and took...
...independent followings, into his inner circle. Most new Presidents display this flaw to some extent, but Bush has it worse than, say, Ronald Reagan, who eight years ago put together an effective team that mixed old friends and talented people he barely knew, some staunchly conservative, others not. In contrast, says a former Bush adviser who played a large role in the transition, Bush "always asked, 'Is he or she really on the team?' " In selecting Quayle, for example, Bush did not want a running mate with a significant constituency of his own, and he made the decision without heeding...
Cabot Library: No. Cabot, by contrast, teems with cut-throat premeds, just back from subverting their fellow students' lab projects. Chocolate candy, promises of sexual favors and even naked love dances won't budge them from their meticulously prepared notebooks...
Under a tipping system, waiters receive a minimum of $2.01 an hour plus their individual gratuities. A service charge, by contrast, is collected as | part of restaurant revenue and is then paid out to waiters on an hourly basis or under an incentive plan based on how much food they sell. At Del Frisco's in New Orleans, waiters receive $8 an hour or 10% of weekly total sales, whichever is greater...