Word: starkly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Third, they should ask the Coop management why employee turnover is so high, and why the recent unionization drive, in stark contrast to those of previous years, has been so successful...
...radical, Moakley is trying to paint himself as a populist in this-campaign. Big block letters in bright Irish Green blare his name out from the outside of his second-story campaign headquarters on Union Street at the edge of Boston's North End. His billboards say in stark black-on-white lettering "Joe Moakley vs. Louise Day Hicks" and then, in bright green. "Give 'Em Hell, Joe." He talks about tax reform, about unemployment, about giving the little guy a break. Inside, the headquarters looks like the typical underdog operation--kids are running everywhere, phones are ringing people...
...biggest third-quarter jump in twelve years; St. Regis Paper Co. profits were up 153%, to $10.6 million; and National Steel Corp.'s grew 272%, to $15.2 million. Other big corporations showing earnings advances of more than 20%: International Paper, Eastman Kodak, AT&T and RCA. In stark contrast, General Motors reported a 41% profit drop, largely caused by start-up costs for redesigning 1973 models...
...Nixon Administration is truly hurting from the wheat scandal and the Watergate incident just as the Democratic regulars of Texas suffered from a stock scandal last spring. But "The President's" transgressions still have less of an impact than did the stark revelations of widespread corruption throughout the state government. Nixon has maintained an upright posture with the residents of the suburbs, while striking rich with the oil millionaires downtown. His recent negotiations with Hanoi, though they may turn out to be rather morbid theatrics, may have convinced many of the borderline moderates...
...Japanese society. He directs transitions from one locale to another by introducing each new scene with a shot not only symbolic but prolonged to the extent that it almost becomes a still. After the opening scene in Shimonseki, the shift to Tokyo is indicated by the stark image of smokestacks against a smutty sky, and the title "an industrial neighborhood in Tokyo." Setting the mood for each episode with similarly fitting images, Ozu unrolls a cinematic parchment of Japanese prints, the black and white photography of the film heightening its formal links to traditional Japanese art. Each interior, every landscape...