Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March 10, there was cause for optimism. The gap between Islamabad and Kabul over a timetable for withdrawal of the 115,000 Soviet troops from Afghanistan had narrowed from 45 months to a difference of just eleven months. Last week, however, State Department Spokesman Charles Redman denounced the "sharp contrast" between the raids and Moscow's stated goal "to achieve a peaceful, negotiated settlement...
...officials defend their record, noting that all AIDS drugs have been placed on a special fast track. Retrovir went from initial clinical testing to final approval in less than 21 months, in contrast to the usual 8.8 years. Last month the agency proposed rules that would allow doctors to use experimental drugs in life-threatening situations. Says Young: "That is a breakthrough. It's a very propatient orientation...
...Baby M. case may be unique in the buying and selling of emotions, but there are other arrangements that come close and thus may illustrate the case's uniqueness by contrast. The business of prostitution offers the trappings of emotions without the genuine article, and perhaps it has endured for the reason that it touches all parts of the body but the heart. The practice of hiring substitute soldiers to take one's place in the military, common to the armies of Napoleon, Washington and the Czars, theoretically involved a transfer of patriotism. But patriotism proved untransferable. Ranks were filled...
...television-based conglomerates have strayed from ordinary church life. The local Protestant congregation, observes Church Historian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago, "has to account for every penny it takes in. The treasurer lives next door to you. You all get to vote on the budget." By contrast, many televangelists are accountable only to themselves and to cozy boards of admirers...
...contrast and in competition with Clumly's resigned attitude is The Sunlight Man's rebellious anarchy. From the start, The Sunlight Man represents a chaotic presence somehow beyond the Clumly's comprehension...