The details of the data also underlined the contrasting fortunes of private sector workers and those in the public sector, who have been hit by repeated pay freezes as the Treasury seeks to tackle the deficit.
Youth unemployment figures published this week have underlined the contrasting economic fortunes of two cities an hour's drive apart, with Wolverhampton having one of the highest jobless rates for 16 to 24-year-olds in the UK, and Coventry one of the lowest.
Still, the story underlines the contrast between the two rivals.
Even a glance at the wounds on Sinfield's once-mocked "pretty boy" face underlines the contrast at work.
This cap rock, which consists of the uppermost sedimentary section down to the depth of 800 m insulates the more brittle underlying formations and underlines the contrast of the mechanical properties of the two units.
"People are proud of having a Fairphone," he adds, underlining the contrasting outcome of an ethical approach to product manufacturing.
Michelangelo treated the group as one dense and compact mass as before so that it has an imposing impact, yet he underlined the many contrasts present of male and female, vertical and horizontal, clothed and naked, dead and alive to clarify the two components.
The results underline the contrasting nature of different reaches of the Orontes, in part reflecting different crustal blocks, with different histories of landscape evolution.
Before he said goodbye to Obama, Bourdain told me, he had underlined this contrast.
The contrast underlines an unfortunate contradiction in the president's drug policy: for all his willingness to advance reform at home, he has done little to confront grave abuses carried out overseas in the name of the "war on drugs".
