Word: comparison
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...really worn down.” Although she didn’t miss any games because of it, the injury limited her effectiveness and durability. She ended 2006 with a 9-8 record, 88 strikeouts, and a 2.53 ERA. It was a decent campaign, but the stats pale in comparison to her performance this season. With the shoulder healed, the Tarzana, Calif. native turned her attention to dominating the Crimson’s opponents. In the crucial year-end series against Dartmouth, with the Ivy League North Division crown in the balance, Madick shut out the Big Green...
...broad scope. That moment in the pool crystallized the school’s systemic absurdity: Despite all of the good things about it, boarding school is an irredeemably terrible idea. So, I never really bought in—I had fun, fooled around, and messed up, at least in comparison to the average student here...
...these statements bring to mind an emblematic moment of the 1992 campaign, when Bill Clinton, then Governor of Arkansas, went before the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition to denounce a controversial black rapper--and to prove he was not beholden to traditional Democratic interests. But Obama rejects that comparison. "I'm not interested in engaging in a bunch of Sister Souljah moments just for the sake of it," he says. "If I do that, it's not for effect but because it's what I really believe...
...authority over individual libraries but plays a coordinating role between them. While the University Library is a department of the central administration, each of the University’s 10 faculties funds its own library independent of the center.In the past, Verba has often made a tongue-in-cheek comparison of Harvard’s structure to that of the Soviet Union, noting that it “ought to be equally ungovernable.” He draws an analogy between Soviet republics and Harvard’s different “tubs”, each of differing sizes...
...bets totaling $1.5 million during the three-week campaign that concluded when ballots were cast yesterday. Other bookmakers reported similar takings. That's much higher than last time Ireland went to the polls, in 2002, when Power says he took wagers worth only about $100,000. "It bears no comparison with the last election," he told TIME.com. "The Irish people have been putting down money like never before...