Word: contrasts
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...Thai. Several groups dominate this pool: The Chinese alone comprise almost a quarter of the Asian demographic, and Filipinos make up just under a fifth. Asian Indians rank third at 16 percent, the Vietnamese and Koreans hold 11% each, and Japanese make up an additional 8 percent. In contrast, Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, Pakistani, and Thai Asians each comprise under 2 percent of the Asian population...
...Zornow knocked out his competitors using an American hip-hop style in contrast to Or D’Oevre’s European electric-techno sound. He attributed his win to a combination of stage presence, versatility, and novelty...
...Amara wasn't the only leftist cabinet member to take a swipe at the controversial legislation. High Commissioner for Social Solidarity Martin Hirsch also decried an article in the law banning illegal aliens from emergency homeless shelters. In contrast to Amara's emotional denunciation of the law, Hirsch said he remained confident of convincing parliamentarians to amend the text during its final reading in parliament...
...Within hours of those comments, Patrick Devedjian, general secretary of Sarkozy's ruling Union for a Popular Movement party called on Amara to cease "insulting majority legislators" - people, he noted with pointed contrast, who "are the ones who support the government...
...took over an hour for the rain to pass and the lighting to stop before the Harvard men’s soccer team could kick off its Ivy League opener against Cornell on Saturday. In contrast, it took less than eight minutes for the No. 8 Crimson (8-1-1, 1-0-0 Ivy) to score three second-half goals en route to a convincing 4-1 victory over the Big Red (5-4, 0-1-0 Ivy) in Ithaca, N.Y. “[The Ivy games are] what we live and die for,” senior co-captain...