Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wrong. A recent poll of University of Maryland students revealed that 90 percent had sex during their first year in college. The Harvard Independent's surveys, in contrast, show that about half of Harvard students are still virgins...
...instruct the rest as nonconformant with the desired image of power. And thus are reinscribed sexist machismo, racist intolerance, and hereterosexist assumption of the dominator--to excel in the military you must dominate the other side, conquer them. Misogyny persists with assertion of superiority and necessary justification of violence. Contrast this to the ambience of Robert Coles' "Literature of Social Reflection...
...almost mocking contrast to the weather's carnage in the eastern half of the U.S., a bright sun shone on San Francisco and Oakland as 11,000 people strolled onto the Bay Bridge in an advance celebration of its weekend reopening. The 50-ft. section of the upper deck that collapsed during the quake had been repaired well ahead of schedule in a round-the-clock $2.5 million construction feat. California Governor George Deukmejian cheerily declared, "We're back, and we're in business again...
Faithful to his prediction, Wilder had clambered onto the statewide leadership ladder with his election as Lieutenant Governor in 1985. In contrast to Jackson's often divisive politics of prophecy, Wilder was now the candidate of consensus progress and a united Democratic Party. If successful, he would become the model for future black crossover politicians who could triumph in places like Virginia, where the electorate was 80% white...
...polls last week, they ignored his warning in fairly spectacular fashion. With 647 candidates running for 80 seats, the biggest winner turned out to be the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood. Its candidates and supporters won 34 seats. The Communists and others of the far left also made gains. By contrast, the moderate factions that Hussein has entrusted with day-to-day power for more than two decades suffered heavy losses...