Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well, as even Nasser admits. Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and eventually Jordan might be persuaded to join a looser association called the United Arab States, which now links the U.A.R. with the feudal Imam of Yemen, a ruler whose primitivism makes the sheiks of Saudi Arabia appear enlightened democrats by comparison.* By joining the U.A.S., other Arab rulers might hope to keep some internal autonomy and some hold on their fabulous oil revenues. Such a membership, seemingly voluntary, might prove immune to U.N. charges of violating the independence of those brotherly sovereign states...
...Avion!" With its huge exports of cocoa ($30 million a year) and coffee ($60 million), as well as its dense forests, the Ivory Coast is rich by comparison. By sunrise the people of Abidjan are already on their way to work, the men loping along in giant and graceful strides, bantering in a French laced with local slang, e.g., "Avion!" for "Hurry up!", "Japan" for anything shoddy. The symbol of the Coast's progress is the French-financed Felix Houphouet-Boigny Bridge that stretches across the Ebrié Lagoon and supports a four-lane highway and a two-track...
...states have increased their spending 15 times faster than the Federal Government; .city governments have increased a hefty 18 times faster. In fiscal 1957 alone, reports U.S. Census Bureau after a year of figure collecting, cities upped total expenditures 13% to an awesome $12.8 billion. .By comparison, federal spending for 1957 nondefense, domestic items was $24.2 billion...
...platforms disguised the diamonds; flower banks decked the pitching mounds; burlap mountains, artificial waterfalls hid second and third bases. New York had never seen a convention so big; even Billy Graham's Yankee Stadium throng last year-100,000, and 10,000 turned away-was small by comparison. From 48 states and 122 foreign countries, Jehovah's Witnesses had gathered 194,000 strong. For eight days they packed both ballparks in a "giant Bible school." Through steamy rain they went on singing hymns, praying, hearing speeches and reports about the fast-growing sect (total members: 719,000) that...
This production inevitably invites comparison with the one last summer at Stratford. Though the general approach is different, it measures up favorably and is in some respects superior...