Word: difference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the many contrasts between Du Pont and Robertson, their announcements reflected the status of the Republican Party in the last stage of the Reagan era. Conservatives who differ only marginally on most issues control the nominating process. Both Du Pont, a nuts-andbolts pragmatist, and Robertson, an ideologue preoccupied with moral issues, are trying to challenge Vice President George Bush from the right...
While most SASC members agree that the shanties served their educational purpose, they differ on the effectiveness of last spring's protest activities...
Stephenson says the celebration he has planned will differ markedly from the 300th he experienced as an undergraduate. In 1936, the University celebrated its birthday with a summer-long series of erudite conferences on the future of academia that culminated in a three-day public celebration...
...applies equally well to two clergymen who are antipodes in almost every other way: Pat Robertson on the Republican right and Jesse Jackson on the Democratic left. Though both speak in the cadenced tones of the pulpit and address themselves to a constituency that feels embattled and disenfranchised, they differ in race, personality, theology and cultural attitudes. From opposing ends of the political spectrum, each of them is playing a similar role in his party's early maneuvering for 1988 -- and playing it with a gusto that promises (or threatens) to alter significantly the shape and outcome of the long...
...women differ sharply on whether the selling of magazines with nude pictures should be outlawed in local stores. The responses...