Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unity's leaders, almost invisible during the campaign, were silent after it. It is a peculiar party. Unity has virtually no platform, almost no organization (especially in contrast to the nation's Communist Party) and only a handful of visible leaders. What it does have is the backing of the Kremlin. The party was formed last September by Sergei Shoigu, who serves as Putin's Emergencies Minister, a position in which he dealt with natural and man-made disasters...
...Enforcement Administration set out to crack a Colombian cocaine ring three years ago, they opened a fully licensed--but also fully bogus--brokerage in suburban Atlanta to get inside the drug world. Even though the customers never made a single stock trade--double-digit stock gains are paltry in contrast to 400% returns on cocaine--the sting paid off last week with federal indictments of five Colombians, who are believed to have ties to the Cali drug cartel, on drug trafficking and money-laundering charges. The indictments capped an international operation in which authorities have so far arrested more than...
...austerity of Carter's prison life does not offer many opportunities for electrifying moviemaking, but The Hurricane is nevertheless a thoughtful and even inspiring film. That's not just because of the way it celebrates Carter's self-discipline, but because the director, Norman Jewison, enforces the contrast between his stoicism and the efforts of the unlikely team of '60s activists that eventually came to his rescue...
...contrast, in discussions with reporters in Atlanta, Daft struck a determined, confident note. The new millennium, he said "is the year of recovery for the world, and obviously our business will be part of that." The previous growth targets, Daft insisted, will be sustained. That made analysts nervous, because for all his attributes, Coke's new Doug was still sounding very much like the old Doug. Unless the tune changes, they say, the real value of this brand of carbonated sugar water is likely to be put to an even greater test...
...that drapes above the audience and includes us in the conflict between the jail-barred motif of the Chinese half of the banner and the American stars and stripes that is at the heart of this play. From the very beginning, color is central to the understanding of the contrasts between China and the consumerist American society with which Bibi identifies herself. Bibi comes onto the stage dressed in rainbow colors; in contrast, the only colors that are allowed in China, according to Karen, are "gray, blue and green." This is part of the goal of director Due Quach...