Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work of a single suspect, quickly dubbed the "Green River Killer," who appears to have ended his monstrous spree in March 1984. Over 20 months, the killer may have murdered as many as 46 victims, since nine local women remain missing and are presumed dead by his hand. By contrast, John Wayne Gacy, convicted in 1980 of more murders than anyone else in U.S. history, was found guilty of killing 33 boys and young...
...million personal-computer games sold in the U.S. last year, according to Ingram Software, a leading game distributor, nearly 40% were designed for the most popular business machines: the IBM PC, the Apple Macintosh and such IBM- compatible brands as Compaq, Epson, Leading Edge and Tandy. In 1985, by contrast, only about 15% of the games sold would run on business computers. When 750 U.S. executives were polled by Epyx, creator of Winter Games and Temple of Apshai, nearly 40% admitted that they had used their office computers for entertainment. Says Will Rodriguez, assistant manager of a B. Dalton...
...boon for discount stock brokerages. These firms charge smaller commissions than full-service investment firms because, unlike the traditional houses, the discounters provide no advice or portfolio management. For example, on a sale of 100 shares of a $60 stock, a discounter's commission would be about $50, in contrast to nearly $100 at a full-service brokerage. As a result, the percentage of retail stock transactions placed with discounters has increased from 8% in 1982 to an estimated 22% this year. Most successful is San Francisco-based Charles Schwab, the largest U.S. discounter, whose revenues have gone up from...
Chiang's gradual approach to liberalization is not likely to satisfy the political yearnings of the Democratic Progressives. Yet the opposition, which claims a membership of only 7,000, in contrast to the Kuomintang's 2.2 million, is not likely to pose a significant challenge anytime soon. Still technically illegal until a "civics organization law" is passed at the end of this year or early next, the Democratic Progressives suffer from a bad case of factionalism, which is certain to be aggravated by the recent release of long-imprisoned opposition leaders. Now that they are free again, they are sure...
...toughest opponents of North, after all, have included a Jewish lawyer (Senate counsel Arthur L. Liman '54), a Jewish Senator (Senate Committee Vice-chairmen Warren Rudman (R.-N.H.), a Japanese Senator (Inouye), and a Black Congressman (Louis Stokes (D.-Ohio)). By contrast, North has presented himself as the true-blue American defending democracy, freedom, God, and country. He is a populist hero, the little guy taking on the government. But as historians have long since pointed out, populism has two faces: one which celebrates the common man, another which reflects racism, anti-semitism, and xenophobia. Both faces of populism have...