Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sheer numbers of launches per year, the Soviets inched past the U.S. in 1967, 66 to 58, and have stayed in front since. In 1982 they sent up 101 space shots, in contrast to 18 by the U.S. More impressive, Soviet cosmonauts have logged some 14 man-years in space, against less than five for U.S. astronauts. The knowledge of Soviet doctors and researchers about the medical and psychological consequences of long-term space habitation far outstrips that of their American counterparts. And with the twin Vega space probes, which photographed Halley's comet in 1986, Soviet scientists consolidated their...
...uncertainty, many analysts took the Gap's stock off their list of recommended buys. The company's shares fell by 8 5/8 the next day. Then over the weekend, Chairman Fisher finally announced the firm's projections for third-quarter earnings: 40 cents to 55 cents a share, in contrast to 60 cents last year. It was this news that drove the stock down another 10 1/4 points last Monday. On Tuesday, when the Dow Jones industrial average climbed a record 75.23 points, the Gap managed an anemic 5/8-point rise. It closed on Friday at 36 3/4, down...
...Reformation. Dark, admonitory and raw, it seems overwhelmingly real in every detail, from the coarse weave of the woolen habit (with a frayed hole at the elbow, emblematic of poverty, brilliantly accentuated with a few impasto flicks of white light on the dangling threads to give a hint of contrast to * the massive carving of the rest of the forms) to the shrouded face whose eyes Zurbaran loses in blackness to suggest the hermetic nature of the saint's vision. His gaping mouth is doubled in the gaping eye sockets of the skull he clutches. The eyeline...
...that female egos take a subtle but destructive pounding in coed classrooms. A report released last fall by the Carnegie Foundation found that "even the brightest women students often remain silent" in mixed classes. "Not only do men talk more, but what they say often carries more weight." By contrast, at women's colleges, notes Wellesley President Nannerl Keohane, female students not only enjoy "equal * opportunity, but every opportunity." This pays off, she insists, when graduates go out into the real and frequently sexist world: "When they do hit their first mound of prejudice, instead of saying...
They learn leadership by example: top administrators at women's colleges tend to be women and, on average, the faculty is 61% female, in contrast to 27% for all higher-ed schools. Without the intimidating male presence, notes WCC's Reindorf, students at all-female colleges are more apt to venture into such traditionally male fields as engineering, physics and economics. At Bryn Mawr, for example, the percentage of physics majors is 20 times as great as the national average for all women students...