Word: contrasts
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...While the disease doesn't discriminate, African Americans are suffering in far greater numbers than other ethnic groups. More than 75% of Washington residents who have contracted the virus are black, with 7% of all black men testing positive. Overall, 4% of African Americans are afflicted. By contrast, 2% of Hispanics and 1% of whites are known to harbor the virus...
...every weekend that the Crimson men’s tennis team enjoys consecutive games on the road against “the Tribe” and “the Monarchs.”While such monikers together provoke colorful comparisons, No. 63 Harvard (6-4) offered its own contrast by recording a win and a loss versus No. 49 William & Mary (12-9) and Old Dominion (15-9), respectively.With only one point the difference in the two keenly-contested fixtures, it was a contrast not quite as vivid as tribalism and royalty.“We were outclassed...
...dealer-based service. The small business website Manta lists 135, 967 auto repair shops in its directory. There are probably many more than that but getting an accurate count of businesses that may employ only one or two people is almost impossible. The National Automobile Dealers Association, in contrast, reports that about 21,000 car dealers employed 1.1 million people in 2006. Since there are probably more than 100 million cars and light trucks on the road, many people are getting their cars repaired at some place other than a new car dealership...
...contrast was all too apparent...
...otherwise recycled nature of “Miss March.” Craig Robinson’s performance as Horsedick.MPEG also ultimately succeeds, due to his typically nonchalant delivery and an awkward revelation at the movie’s end. The acting of Cregger and Moore, by contrast, is noticeably contrived. Their stilted words and staging make them appear painfully conscious that they are acting, and the plasticity of their conversations is impossible to overlook. To be sure, there is a patent attempt to flesh out the main characters’ three-dimensionality. Tucker’s secret sexual na?...