Word: comparison
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...year. As for Long Beach State, the 49ers had dominated No. 21 Missouri, 4-1, before heading to Cambridge. Just as importantly, last year’s team also took some time to get going, and look where they ended up—the NCAA Tournament. To take the comparison even further, that group’s first entry into the win column also came at the expense of New Hampshire in the third game of the season. Perplexing, however, are the Crimson’s struggles when considering its track record and personnel. The desire to win ought...
...administrative members and that her tutorial professor had expressed willingness to meet personally to discuss non-academic matters. However, according to Lind, the psychology department has been more proactive in its advising strategy, for the most part because concentrators are assigned a specific advisor who contacts them directly. In comparison, Lind says, the English department relies more on the initiative of its students and communication—via Berg—to prompt contact between concentrators and potential advisors.There have been varying responses to the advising system, however; some students have expressed their comfort in seeking help from the department?...
...larger truth. With power distributed between three branches of government, and between Washington and the states, the U.S. has a distinctly fragmented political system, one that has many pressure points available for those with an ax to grind or a proposal to advance. (Think health-care reform.) By comparison with other democracies, that can make for a messy system of government, in which you can never be quite sure how things will get done, or what players hold strong hands. Moreover, because the U.S. is so powerful, its national system of government is to an extent a world government...
...Chinese student overzealously prodding him as to how she could become a partner in his company: "People are very interested in making money; in that respect, it's very Chinese." We probably could have figured the first part, but who would have thought to make such an apt comparison...
...bother with the tax? The logic for Europe is simple. The E.U. has pledged to slash greenhouse gas pollution by a fifth of 1990 levels by 2020. But the bloc's Emission Trading Scheme only covers around 40% of its emissions. The U.S. plan, by comparison, will cover roughly double that portion, says Simon Tilford, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform in London. (Unlike the U.S., Europe, didn't include the petroleum sector in its own scheme, preferring to more heavily tax the industry instead.) Extending the "fiendishly complicated" system, as Tilford calls it, would be enormously difficult...