Word: vs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...service will raise mailing costs enough to push some businesses into lifting their prices more and sooner than they otherwise would have done. For all classes of mail, the rise voted last week by the Postal Rate Commission averages 25.5%. First-class postage goes from 13? to 15? (vs. 6? as recently as 1971). The cost of second-class mail for magazines and newspapers will jump 29.6%. The minimum rate for mailing a 2-lb. package parcel post will leap more than...
...earn its own way, the Postal Service has raised rates 150% and cut back service. For example, it now delivers mail to most businesses once a day rather than twice. But it still lost three-quarters of a cent on every piece of mail handled in fiscal 1977, vs. about half a cent in 1974. One reason is that, while almost every other index of the economy has been rising smartly in the past few years, the volume of mail has been stagnant. Last year the Postal Service handled 92 billion pieces of mail, barely more than the 90 billion...
...this newspaper chose to publish this diary-type article on such a weighted issue as the dilemma of Palestinian-Israeli confrontation along the southern Lebanese-northern Israeli border, because the article's limited and distorting scope essentially reduces this complex subject to simply a matter of "fanatic Palestinian terrorists vs. innocent kibbutzniks...
...vital to consider several questions that might broaden one's understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian issue and allow one to realize that Feldstein blindly portrays it as simply "innocent kibbutznik vs. fanatic PLO terrorist...
...lacrosse vs. Dartmouth...