Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...existence of the Chicken Ranch. Mr. Zindler is famous for his incredibly theatrical news reports, and he became extremely unpopular with the residents of Lagrange. With this in mind, I find it difficult to understand how Mr. Grafstein can label Melvin P. Thorpe an "overworked stereotype." Further, the comparison of Thorpe to Dan Rather or the Rev. Billy Sol Hargas only betrays the reviewer's ignorance of these facts. The strength of this musical lies in the fact that the unique characters and events are real; Mr. Grafstein has missed this crucial point and produced superficial and groundless criticisms...
Mike Horn, the present coach of the men's and women's sailing teams here, has watched the Harvard sailing program grow in recent years. A 1963 Harvard graduate and former sailor, Horn said this week, "In 1963 we did everything by ourselves. By comparison things are pretty good today...
Aggravated assaults and rapes decreased in the city in comparison to the same six-month period last year, Cpt. Anthony Paolillo of the Cambridge Police said yesterday...
...What really killed us, though, was the housebreaks," Paolillo said. He added that the two-year comparison might not be totally valid, since the blizzard that shut down the city for several weeks last year reduced the number of housebreaks. The number of robberies definitely rose, however, he said...
...solo duty, assisting at a delivery or performing such basic chores as catheterizations and suctioning lungs. Says Dr. Lester Candela, a surgeon in Great Neck, N.Y.: "When these women meet an emergency and are matched against more experienced hospital school students, they're often embarrassed and suffer by comparison." Diane McGivern, associate dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, acknowledges these shortcomings in some new graduate nurses but defends the curriculum by explaining: "We teach them problemsolving abilities and the analytic approach to handle situations...