Word: vs
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...that documentary accurately reflects the attitudes of these young people (I have no reason to think it does not), then debating about the long-term implications of the Supreme Court's ruling on Regents vs. Bakke is like arguing over sundeck chairs on the Titanic...
...contract provided scheduled wage rises of about 10% over three years, 10% more in cost-of-living increases, and pushed the average pay of postal workers to a level of $7.58 an hour, vs. $5.62 for private nonfarm workers...
SHERLOCK HOLMES VS. DRACULA by Loren D. Estleman Doubleday; 214 pages...
...same year," Holmes went on, "a young American novelist, Mr. Loren D. Estleman, 25, will publish Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula. " "But you have already annihilated such creatures in the Adventure of the Sussex Vampire. " evertheless, if a man goes to bat for me, the least I can do is listen to his tale. And, in point of fact, both Dibdin and Estleman observe the law, grant them that. As the mystery writer Dorothy Sayers will write of the Sherlockian pastiche, "The rule of the game is that it must be played as solemnly as a county cricket match at Lord...
...boners have been in on them from the start. The unions demand a 14% increase in the first year of a two-year contract, well above the 5.5% that the Administration has recommended for federal employees. Postal workers already earn an average of $8 an hour, vs. $5.51 for private nonfarm workers, and they enjoy a "no layoff' clause that the Postal Service wants to modify but the union seems determined to preserve...