Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Afternoon. Al Pacino is brilliant as the bank robber-cum-rock star. The efforts of the New York Police Department and the FBI to foil him pale in comparison to the recent Israeli raid on Uganda, but the denouement of this thriller is gripping nonetheless...
Ankori declined to attempt a comparison of his Harvard and Israeli students, but he said his Harvard students comprise an overall "eager, mature and responsive" group...
...take offense at the comparison your reporter made of Yuba City to something "right out of American Graffiti" [June 7]. I have lived in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Miami, Dallas, Cheyenne and many more places. Without putting those places down, because each has something to offer, I believe Yuba City has the most to offer...
During the year's first quarter, Japan's output of goods and services rose 3.5% from late 1975. That was far behind the U.S. performance of 8.7%. But it was ahead of last year's 3.1% increase and even better hi comparison with the grim year of 1974, when real G.N.P. actually shrank by 1.2% and many companies were driven toward bankruptcy. Now corporate earnings are once again on the rise. Official unemployment -which never got much above 2% of the work force-and inflation have abated. The Japanese are responding by buying apparel, leisure equipment, vacations...
...great places to meet and watch people, study, hang out, or most importantly--get to know cities. Heaven for the subway freak is certainly New York, with its 26 lines, hundreds of miles of tracks, and an around-the-clock schedule. The MBTA system is pretty small by comparison--it has only four lines, and closes down before 1 a.m., eliminating the best hours for hanging out, but the Boston subways have a certain spirit of their own which merits the attention of even the most crazed Brooklyn BMT addict...