Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast, today, with less of theinstitutional racism faced by Du Bois and Wilson,you can come to Harvard and just be a Harvardstudent, according to Price. "Being Black doesn'tnecesarily affect your Harvard career, only if youelect to have a particular black experience," saysPrice...
Normally a contrast in style is what creates harmony between linemates, but for the Harvard freshmen it is their similarities that have kept them together since the beginning...
...seem to involve both atmosphere and oceans, more and more scientists are abandoning their long-held belief that the former runs the show. The atmosphere is fickle, they observe. Storms form, then quickly dissipate, so whatever information they contain about the conditions that created them is quickly lost. By contrast, ocean gyres take anywhere from 10 to 20 years to complete a single journey, making them perfect vehicles for transmitting messages into the future. With the exception of the tropical Pacific, unfortunately, the oceans are even less well monitored than the surface of the moon. The changes they undergo, moreover...
Japanese reader Sachiko Himeno wrote to TIME describing how, in order to spare the environment, she lived in a machine-free world, washing her laundry by hand and doing without a TV, air conditioner, stereo and vacuum cleaner [LETTERS, Jan. 19]. By contrast, I am surrounded by the machines that help destroy our environment. But as a single parent living with a seven-year-old son in a one-room apartment, I find that appliances help me a lot. I am a nurse who works long hours. I don't have time to do my laundry by hand. I prepare...
...Princeton, by contrast, the same committeeevaluates all tenure cases, creating "realcontinuity from decision to decision," Rohrersays...