Word: starks
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More significantly, the repeal advocates have created a political atmosphere of "us versus them." The lines they have tried to draw have been stark: the poor, unarmed taxpayer doing battle with the evil giant, Labor, and his oppressive and omnipotent ally, state government. In short, the repeal movement has tried to paint a portrait of labor as out of the mainstream--they have tried to make the ludicrous case that the interests of organized labor in this state should no longer be part of the general concerns of the community...
...stark facts are revealed each month in the trade-deficit figures. Despite recent improvement, the U.S. still imported $80 billion more in goods than it exported in the first seven months of the year. At the current rate, the 1988 trade deficit will total some $130 billion, 23.5% less than last year's record $170 billion. That progress has resulted primarily from the 40% drop of the dollar against major currencies since early 1985, which has made imports more expensive and U.S. exports a bargain overseas...
...Scotts and Sleds are stark reminders that despite the enormous civil rights gains of the past three decades, even the rawest forms of racism persist. Reports to the Community Relations Service of the Justice Department indicate that racial incidents nationwide increased by 55% from 1986 to 1987, and more than 400% since 1980. In the first six months of 1988, racial incidents against blacks were recorded in at least 20 states, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. There were 4,500 housing-discrimination complaints last year in the U.S., up from 3,000 in 1980. Racism is most likely...
...rule rather than the exception. The number of jobs in his local has dropped from 450 to 250 in the past 15 years. Though the Forrester children have done far better than some of their counterparts elsewhere who work at minimum-wage jobs, they still face a stark choice common to many high school-educated children of blue-collar workers: either to make it into a well-paid but precarious union job or to walk off an economic cliff into a nonunion service-sector job that pays a fraction of such wages...
About a mile away, in a plaza of cultural palaces around a gushing fountain, patrons stroll into the white marble monument that houses Los Angeles' older, more conventional-seeming Mark Taper Forum. Visually, the contrast between the Taper and the L.A.T.C. is stark. But the ferment, the embrace of the new and the political consciousness are much the same at both. Throughout its 21-year history under artistic director Gordon Davidson, the Taper has thrived on controversy. FBI agents, for example, sat alert at the opening of Daniel Berrigan's The Trial of the Catonsville Nine in 1970, hoping...