Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Austerity-minded officials from Beijing sometimes complain that touring Guangdong province in South China is like visiting a foreign country. In contrast to much of China, Guangdong exudes abundance: successful farmers living in multistory houses, townships producing consumer goods ranging from shoes to toys to microwave ovens, thousands of privately owned businesses blossoming. Set in the humid delta of the Pearl River, Guangdong's capital, Guangzhou, better known in the West as Canton, seethes with enterprise. The Dongping Street free market is filled with stalls selling all sorts of food: fish swimming in tubs of fresh water, poultry, a greengrocer...
...contrast to the depleted MIT team, the Black-and-White boasts two full sides for the first time since...
...contrast, Alan M. Taylor, this year's recipient of the Joseph Hodges Memorial Choate Fellowship, is studying economics, even though he majored in math at Cambridge University's King's College. Presented in honor of a former president of the Harvard Club of New York who was ambassador to Great Britain, the Choate fellowship is awarded annually to one Cambridge student. The Harvard Club of New York has funded the award, which includes tuition and a monthly stipend, since its establishment...
...words and pictures that appear on the screen and the commands by which the machine can be made to do one's bidding. Conventional computers, including the industry-standard IBM PC, are controlled by entering commands letter by letter on the computer's typewriter-like keyboard. The Mac, by contrast, uses artful screen displays to create the visual illusion of a desktop littered with objects and documents that can be selected and manipulated with a "mouse," a handheld pointing device...
...Mesopotamians "adored their food soaked in fats and oils," Bottero wrote. "They seem obsessed with every member of the onion family, and in contrast to our tastes, salt played a rather minor role in their diet...