Word: contrasts
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There's a fine line between optimism and denial. The WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index, which tracks the stock prices of clean-tech companies, is down about 80% since the beginning of September. (By contrast, the S&P Index lost about 25% of its value over the same time period.) The cost of oil, which has driven much of the investment in alternative energy in recent years, has halved since the summer. And new green industries, like wind farms and solar-panel factories, are no less affected by the credit crunch than any other business...
...downtown offices in Phoenix are any clue, Democrats are certainly outworking their GOP counterparts. I visited the Democratic headquarters Sunday evening and found four dozen or so volunteers busily making calls inside; a few were even outside on their cell phones for lack of space. The Republican headquarters, by contrast, was empty and locked...
...huge p.r. budgets - New Coke, anyone? - endless iterations on an edible theme are the norm in Japan. American beer drinkers partial to Budweiser basically face a binary choice: Bud or Bud Lite, although they might occasionally find such niche-market products as Bud Select or Bud Extra. By contrast, when a Japanese beer drinker goes to buy a can of Asahi at an average convenience store, he has to choose between Super Dry, Premium, Prime Time, Black, Stout, Orion Draft, Northern Style, Clear, Flavorful, Gubi Draft, New Draft 3 and Ginger Draft, among others. And that's just this month...
...Dole, by contrast, faced numbers much more dire than McCain in the final weeks of his race. A 1996 Gallup tracking poll found Dole with just 35% of the national popular vote on the eve of election, compared to 51% for Clinton and 8% for Ross Perot. On election day, Dole carried 19 states and 41% of the vote, compared to Clinton's 31 states and 49% share...
...McCain's campaign here, by contrast, is notably weak, a sign of how the GOP has long taken Indiana for granted. It hasn't opened a single campaign office, and the Indiana Republican Party's local offices are managing McCain's outreach efforts. Republicans spent an estimated $336,000 on television ads between in late October. "You can't turn on the TV without seeing Barack Obama," observed Tami Meisler, a 37-year-old medical technician who waited four hours in near-freezing temperatures to get a seat inside the Coliseum here. In recent weeks, the Republicans have been relying...