Word: comparison
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...what sells well.” Garber concluded that it is the newer art that most needs patronage, stressing the importance of “pressing the boundaries.” Cambridge resident Susan White-Shaffer, a long-time painter, said she was interested in Garber’s comparison of art and science. “Both are inquiries into the truth and complexity of life.” Garber’s book comes at a time when Harvard is in the midst of an effort to revitalize the arts on campus. University President Drew G. Faust created...
...world's most prominent banks, including Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, demonstrate that there is a lot of market concern about the stability of leading financial institutions, even after the Treasury's recent steps. Another piece of evidence: the premiums on three-month interbank loans remain very high in comparison with overnight loans, signaling banks' deep uncertainty about the sector's stability...
...characters' crudeness. NBC's Kath simply smugly insults them - for their clothes, their pop-culture obsessiveness, their eating at Applebee's. It's sneering and unwatchably badly written; it shoots at fish in a barrel and still manages to miss. On NBC's My Name Is Earl, by comparison, Jaime Pressley's Joy may be a moron, but she's an interesting one, with a kind of admirably feral greed. Blair's Kim is just a cartoon idiot. ("It's over!" she declares about her marriage. "O-V-U-R!") If you can't even make your characters believably dumb...
...hefty $7.6 billion; by 2002, Conseco had declared bankruptcy. "Green Tree was a house of cards, built on financial engineering that could not withstand the test of time," write the authors. It was the third largest bankruptcy in U.S. history at the time--one that now looks puny by comparison with today's debacles...
Frank began his talk by drawing a comparison between American politics today and in the late 19th century, which he called both the “Golden Age of American capitalism” and the “Golden Age of American misery...