Word: contrasts
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Overseers, by contrast, are primarily responsible for departmental visitation and participation in the selection of Corporation members and the President. The Board also acts in an "advice and consent" capacity with regard to the Corporation--a role stemming from its original charter that in practice is rarely one of veto power...
...expectations attendant on the Venice gathering are in sharp contrast to the high hopes that preceded last year's Tokyo summit meeting. At that session, which President Reagan cheerfully reviewed as the "most successful of the six I have attended," Treasury Secretary James Baker helped to win endorsement of an ambitious plan to control the volatile relationship between the U.S. dollar and other currencies through tighter coordination of economic policies (see box). The agreement was easy to reach, but the goal proved difficult to accomplish: despite a spate of follow-up meetings among economic leaders, market forces sent the dollar...
...heart of the slowdown is the world trade imbalance, in which the U.S. figures so crucially. Washington's trade deficit last year was $170 billion, in contrast to $149 billion in 1985 and $9.5 billion a decade ago. Japan and West Germany, on the other hand, piled up surpluses of $101 billion and $63 billion respectively last year. But there are glimmers of hope. The decline of the U.S. dollar by roughly 20% against other major currencies during the past 18 months has started to ease the American deficit somewhat. One especially heartening sign: the U.S. trade deficit...
...opposition, by contrast, argues that the security legislation contradicts the constitution and its guarantees of freedoms of speech, assembly, belief and movement. As evidence, it notes that the new law will continue the current ban on travel and on any opposition to the KMT's claim of sovereignty over all of China. Says Frank Hsieh, a D.P.P. member and Taipei city councilman: "Our principle is that when martial law is abolished, we should return to a full constitutional system...
...roots of his imagination go, one need only compare his painting of the nude Helga with a black ribbon round her neck, face averted, floating in a soup of dark shadow, with the work on which it is based: Manet's Olympia. There, one has all the contrast between what is deep and what is genteel, between brazen, ironic intelligence and mere sensibility, between the harsh confrontational skills of a great talent and the tepid virtuosity of a popular one. This show is too much of a medium-good thing, and its ever docile public has been...