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Whereas Samuelson's text, now in its 15 th edition, staunchly advocates Keynesian prescriptions, Mankiw's is touted as post-ideological, pitting rival schools of thought against each other.
The NYT says that most of the top House majority positions will be up for grabs in the coming days, pitting GOP personalities and ideological factions against each other.
Taken together, these observations appear to effectively refute the prediction of a CysRS activity, thus pitting computational results against experimental data.
Faced with two challenges--the antitrust case and the network-paradigm alliance--Microsoft is pitting the latter against the former.
Since disco came precisely at a time when the privileged classes, in their political incarnation, were busily pitting working-class whites against blacks through such innovations as forced busing, this seems like an odd alliance, to say the least.