Word: vs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter vs. The Bureaucrats
...stay ahead of the spiraling prices; rural workers are now worse off in terms of purchasing power than they were before the 1974 revolution. Nor are economic matters expected to improve soon. This year, to meet IMF austerity guidelines, Portugal was expected to limit economic growth to 3% vs. last year's 7%. Meanwhile, a ballooning bureaucracy and costly nationalizations of industry have forced Soares to impose stiff tax increases...
...beyond New York City to four other cities. El Al will probably start flying to Los Angeles next April and later add Chicago, Miami and Boston. In November it intends to offer a no-frills, no-meals "holiday" class round trip between New York and Tel Aviv for $499, vs. the lowest current fare of $628. In July the line's only competitor on the route, TWA, began offering reduced fares, and it plans to match...
What recruiters do not talk about is the sky-high housing costs. Last year the average price of a house was almost $74,000 in the Santa Clara Valley, vs. $43,000 in the nation as a whole. Ted Oliver, an engineer for Sycor in Ann Arbor, Mich., turned down a job with Memorex in the valley because he figured that, despite the handsome pay and perks, "I would have had to accept a lower living standard at double the cost." No doubt many other employees, new and old, are happy out in the valley. But with the nation...
...that refuses to strum on the heartstrings. For convenience, Szarkowski divides the images in this show into "mirrors"?pictures that mean to describe the photographer's own sensibility?and "windows"?realist photos of fact, including the facts of photography seen as a system. In short, the romantic vs. the realist: but it is not a very strict dichotomy, as Szarkowski himself stresses. The typical photo in this show, mirror or window, is cool, low in narrative content, linguistically sophisticated, beautifully made and, by the conventions of photojournalism, not very arresting. Its pleasures have to do with formal...