Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson had special reason to be disturbed about a new European tax scheme pioneered by France and Denmark. Last week West Germany adopted it, and several other European countries are planning to follow suit. An excise-type levy on goods produced (the U.S., by contrast, usually taxes only the profits of companies that make the goods), the new tax figures to streamline the traditional European system, which heretofore has resulted in a maze of overlapping assessments. It thus will make it an easier bookkeeping matter to rebate the full tax paid by exporters and, at the same time, to exact...
This has been particularly true in the case of Viet Nam. In the past his forecasts were hyperbolic, and though they have since been muted, they backfired as the war dragged on. By contrast, Churchill knew during World War II that the British wanted the unvarnished truth, and, as Lord Moran wrote, he "hurled it at them like great hunks of bleeding meat...
...than a century ago, when Chief Justice John Marshall scolded Andrew Jackson in Worcester v. Georgia for failing to honor a treaty guaranteeing the rights of the Cherokee Indians, Jackson is said to have retorted with impunity: "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it." By contrast, when F.D.R. tried to pack the Supreme Court, he was rebuffed by Congress and later by the voters, who re-elected all but one of the recalcitrant, anti-New Deal Congressmen he tried to purge...
...Price of Protest. Bukovsky, who was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for a demonstration in Pushkin Square on behalf of three other arrested writers, read at his trial sections from the Soviet constitution guaranteeing "freedom of demonstrations and gatherings on the street." By way of contrast, he pointed out that in the U.S., the Supreme Court had assured the right of Communists to peaceful dissent. "What the prosecutor would like to hear from me, he won't hear," said Bukovsky. "There is no criminal act in my case. I absolutely do not repent." Nonetheless, the Soviet press reported...
...contrast, the Soviet Union has scored only one success in 18 or 19 launches of probes to Mars and Venus. But that success was the apparent soft landing of a working, instrumented capsule on the surface of Venus last October, a feat indicating that the quality of Russian planetary probes is beginning to catch up to the quantity. U.S. experts expect a rash of additional Russian planetary shots in 1969 and the early 1970s, including a Martian soft-landing attempt as early...