Word: contrasting
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...debate, while failing to bring out new positions of either man on the issues, provided a clear contrast between their personalities and basic beliefs. Reagan was tense at first, but he soon regained his mellifluous stage presence. Asked whether he was affected by sharing a podium with the President, Reagan quipped: "No, not at all. I've been on the same stage with John Wayne...
...contrast to the wake-like atmosphere at the Park Plaza--where reporters and hotel staff outnumbered the smattering of Carter supporters--a heady mixture of cigar smoke and jubilation marked the scene in the jam-packed Commonwealth Room of the Sheraton Boston...
Unlike many of their predecessors, both Walter Mondale and George Bush were nominated to the vice presidency after a long and careful selection process. In 1972, George McGovern chose Sen. Thomas Eagleton of Missouri in what has been described as a "one minute and two second telephone conversation." By contrast, Carter surveyed 14 nominees, held 30 to 40 meetings with key citizens, and personally interviewed the final seven contenders before nominating Mondale as his running mate in 1976. Last spring Reagan's staff polled party members nationwide to determine their vice-presidential preference, and--despite a brief flirtation with former...
Asia. China would prefer to continue dealing with Carter, essentially because he was responsible for normalizing diplomatic relations and because of Reagan's statements about strengthening U.S. ties with Taiwan. By contrast, Taiwan's leaders believe that Reagan would be more willing than Carter to sell them advanced fighter aircraft and less tempted to pressure them into negotiating with the mainland on reunification. i Japan is content with Carter, largely because officials are afraid that Reagan would set tougher limits on their exports to the U.S. Reagan Adviser Glenn Campbell, director of the Hoover Institution, dismayed some Japanese...
...uncertain direction of the economy stands in ironic contrast to the similarly unsettled conditions that prevailed during Carter's first presidential drive in 1976. At that time, the immediate outlook suggested not the illusion of stable recovery and growth that now prevails, but an equally unreal threat of an approaching slump. Indeed, economists who worked for Gerald Ford at the time complain bitterly that misleading and later revised figures for August, September and October 1976 may have cost him the election by allowing Carter to warn of an imminent downturn under the Republicans. In fact, within three months after...