Word: comparison
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...Maier’s most recent book, “Among Empires,” analyzes America’s foreign policy role in comparison with past imperial powers. It’s his own after-the-fact way of commenting on America’s role in Iraq, he said...
...every one of us has an uncle or a grandmother good for at least two jaw-droppers every Thanksgiving. Yes, the Senator was comparing apples and freight trains: Wright's hate speech was as public and consequential as the grandmother's stereotypes were private, but Obama came to this comparison only after he had unequivocally condemned his pastor for having "a profoundly distorted view of this country...
...There was almost no protest by comparison and much lower level of feeling,” Government professor and vocal conservative Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 said about Harvard at the beginning of the Iraq invasion. “Even though most American people are against the Iraq War, no one’s out in the streets saying it should be condemned...
...ratings agencies. It's certainly a license to print money. Moody's, the lone ratings firm for which data are available, made $702 million in after-tax profit last year, up from $289 million just five years before. Its operating profit margin was a stunning 50% of revenue. By comparison, Google...
...permanent collections dwindle as nations reclaim objects, he argued, these museums will no longer be able to display the same gamut of different cultural artifacts side by side, losing a vital resource for prolonged educational comparison...