Word: dissimilar
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...Mexico's 90 million citizens know but sometimes try to forget, their country is not a seamless unity but a patchwork of dissimilar people and unequal progress. Roughly the top half of the country has joined the 21st century; the rest is mired in unyielding poverty. Differences among the pieces of the mosaic have increased, and the gap between rich and poor has widened during the country's economic advance. Salinas began his six-year term in & office in 1988 by selling off hundreds of bloated state-owned companies and deregulating private industry; he tightened credit to bring inflation down...
...contrast, is invariably in the spotlight, observed not her elusive lover, Jacques (Samuel Labarthe). While Sophie is famished and shabbily dressed, a perpetual onlooker, Irene, the consummate actress, is adorned with smiles and the white dress she will wear in performance throughout the movie. Though the characters appears exceedingly dissimilar in these respects, they do evince integral internal similarities...
...Accompanist" is another French film featuring voyeurism and a diva, but with a twist. Seducing the audience with vibrant singing, the film suggests that voyeur and diva are not inherently dissimilar, but are separated by the constraints of nature and circumstance...
...Louise seem like a bad song you can't stop humming. The actors cast as Harry and Louise by Ben Goddard, president of the Goddard-Clausen/First Tuesday ad agency, are similar to the Taster's Choice twosome in age, self-absorption and pseudo sophistication, although they have dissimilar levels of sexual tension...
...management style." The Bush White House ran with almost military precision, even when its direction was unclear, Duffy says, while Clinton and his staff have a strong sense of direction but are constantly rushing to catch up with themselves. In person, Duffy finds the two Presidents quite dissimilar. Despite Clinton's reputation for seeking instant intimacy, he is far less accessible than Bush, who loved to schmooze with reporters...