Word: contrasts
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...weaknesses. Paced by high-flying Boeing, which is working off a four-year backlog of aircraft orders, Seattle is attracting newcomers from across the country. The median price of a Seattle home rose 23% in the third quarter to $110,000, marking the largest increase in the U.S. By contrast, Phoenix is mired in a real estate depression in the wake of a heedless building spree. Lenders foreclosed on more than 15,000 residential mortgages last year, up nearly 20% from 1988. In the Rocky Mountain area the Denver economy is still struggling to recover from the energy slump...
...Panama attack, in contrast, had been planned and polished for months. Some 13,000 U.S. troops were already in place at well-stocked bases. They provided intelligence on opposing forces and protection for the arriving invaders. Most significant, Panama was mainly an Army show, though small units of Navy SEALs and Marines were involved. Joint Chiefs Chairman General Colin Powell squelched interservice rivalries and gave the two top on-site Army generals, Maxwell Thurman, head of the U.S. Southern Command, and Carl Stiner, the Task Force Commander, clear authority to direct the attacks. Says retired Vice Admiral Joseph Metcalf...
Soldiers are given to cautioning their civilian bosses to judge the enemy by his capabilities, not by his stated intentions. He can deceive about his intentions, or his intentions can change from one year to the next. Capabilities, by contrast, are more constant; they can be gauged objectively; they are harder to change and mask, and once they have truly changed, they are harder to reverse...
...obviously dismayed, his public reaction was muted. Talking with French academics at the Sorbonne a month later, he reminded them that the Soviet party had urged the Chinese authorities to solve the problem by "political dialogue" with the young demonstrators. "This position of ours remains unchanged," he said. In contrast, Gorbachev called the changes in Eastern Europe "inspiring...