Word: starkness
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...example, Slavic Languages and Literatures currently lists 20 faculty on its website. It had only nine concentrators in 2008. In stark contrast, Economics had a student-faculty ratio of 20 to 1 in 2006, and resorted to cancelling its junior seminars because of a dearth of staffing...
...stringent hiring trend posed a stark contrast to the tremendous prosperity of the preceding years: in the decade prior to the financial crisis, the professoriate grew by roughly 20 percent—from 589 to 712 individuals—and plans were in place to hire as many...
...time the Harvard plated its first run, the Bulldogs had already amassed a 7-0 lead against rookie Andrew Ferreira and sophomore Will Keuper. In a stark contrast from game one, walks plagued the Crimson early, as Ferreira issued four free passes in 2.2 innings of work. Twice, Yale baserunners orchestrated a double steal after walks, setting up easy scoring opportunities...
...threats of terrorism that the South Park creators face. To ignore that by substituting defense of that right with just a condemnation of violence is not only laughably impotent as a counter to terrorism, but also a legitimation of the threat itself. Indeed, the South Park controversy cast into stark light the conflict between terrorism and the freedoms that we in America hold dear, and in this case, terrorism prevailed...
...inning, when the Bulldogs were able to put together a late-game rally, scoring three runs in the bottom of the seventh to cut in half a six-run lead. But Harvard still managed finish off the game with a convincing three-run win, one that would prove a stark contrast from the next game...