Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Specifically, it was The Button in Fort Lauderdale where last Wednesday afternoon an assorted group of Crimson undergraduates made Montezuma's revenge pale by comparison...
...Radcliffe tennis team got some stiff competition during its Southern trip this past week in preparation for what should be a more successful season by comparison...
Those who learned Rilke from earlier translations may miss some cherished lines or bridle at Poulin's occasional use of contemporary vocabulary. Yet a comparison between his version and one of the best previous translations suggests that Poulin's is closer to current taste. In their 1939 rendering of the Duino Elegies, J.B. Leishman and Stephen Spender wrote...
...many people feel they have been badly hurt by economic conditions, has stayed at 31%, almost exactly where it was during the last year of the Ford Administration. Only 33% of those surveyed have "a lot" of confidence in Carter's ability to handle the economy (but by comparison only 22% had similar confidence in Ford last October). More than half (54%) think inflation will stay the same-or perhaps get worse-during Carter's four years in office. Among the most pessimistic are Republicans: 67% expect no decline in inflation under...
Logan C. Osterndorf, a representative of the National Center for Education Statistics, which is part of HEW, admitted that the figures in the report were low in comparison to Watson's findings...