Word: contrasts
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...well beyond the limit. He had learned all the necessary control tricks to pull off this feat during his time at the bank’s nondescript back office, where he had started working years ago before rising through the ranks to his more recent and prestigious office. In contrast to what the French public believes, however, his story is hardly one of personal growth and social mobility...
...deceptively low-key one. The men are neither pigs nor saints, and the women are not perfect--Nico is having an affair, as much a betrayal of her friends, whom she hides it from, as of her husband. But the show makes them seem normal and grounded in contrast to a world of crazy, amoral rich people. (When Wendy refuses her young daughter a cell phone, another mom jadedly counsels, "Give her the phone, and be grateful it's not an abortion...
...gone over the edge of the academic cliff. And we ought to ask ourselves some serious questions about what, exactly, it is we’re doing here at Harvard the first place.It’s a false reduction to claim that Harvard students are simply lazy. By contrast, this is what makes the whole proposition so puzzling: Harvard students are, if anything, masochists, morbidly proud of the grisliest wounds incurred by their work. Stress doesn’t signify poor time-management skills but ambition, that most desirable of Harvard traits. The thousands of pages to be read...
...Though interested readers may find similarities between the content covered in various underdog magazines and what appears in the pages of the Big Three, those looking to contribute to the publications are quick to discover a striking contrast between the two spheres. The abandonment of the “comp,” or requisite trial period for prospective members, presents a notable distinction...
...poll also sampled all voters' views of several possible vice presidential choices - and their various impacts on a potential race. According to the survey results, 62% of likely voters want Hillary Clinton to name Obama as her running mate. By contrast, only 51% of the same voters want Obama to return the favor. The same voters, by a margin of 55% to 11%, believed that Obama would help rather than hurt Clinton's chances were he to become her running mate. If Obama tapped Clinton as his running mate, that margin shifted, with 38% saying it would help his chances...