Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have few assets and too little salary to catch up. In a particularly gloomy report, the National Association of Realtors found last fall that the average potential first-time buyer had only 77% of the income needed to qualify for the mortgage on a starter home. Current homeowners, by contrast, had 112% of the income required for a mortgage on a median-priced home. Said Ira Gribin, president of the Realtors association: "The first-time home buyer is virtually priced out of the market in many parts...
...year-olds study the events of 1968 in their history classes. Art director Christine Castigliano was only nine years old the first time around. But for her the complex year is captured dramatically by the special edition's cover image: two daisies and a bullet. The stark contrast "showed how jarring a time it was," she says. "I wanted to symbolize the energy and the explosiveness...
...sharp contrast to Reagan's stiff-necked philosophic rigidity, Bush was eager to touch every point on the ideological spectrum. He honored, with lip service at least, most of his kinder and gentler campaign promises, ranging from a pledge to halt offshore drilling in California to advocacy of extended health care for pregnant women and children. Bush courted environmentalists (by pledging an end to acid rain and toxic dumping) and borrowed lines from Jesse Jackson ("Keep hope alive"), while still echoing themes from the Reagan years ("growth and opportunity" and "family and faith") and bowing at the shrine...
...contrast to South Africa, the Church document cites the United States as a place where society has "found increased vitality in the melting pot cultures." But the document also points to latent racial tensions in American society that express themselves when "exaggerated nationalism" degenerates into "xenophobia or even racial hatred...
...Single Petal of A Rose" further demonstrates Roberts' versatility as a performer. On this piece he combines the influences of both jazz and classical music. The song takes on a very dramatic, heavy tone due to Roberts' piano. "Rose" provides a nice contrast to other more light and snappy tunes on the album...