Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particular responsibility to keep down the normal budget of operating expenses and knows these regular items must carry on in the next decade even if the economic depression is over. As for the emergency institutions, they will be suddenly terminated whenever conditions make it possible to do so. A comparison then will be on the basis of the regular and not the emergency expenses...
...survey of the accommodations in the seven Houses for students revealed that the Houses are 97 per cent filled in comparison with 95 per cent filled in comparison with 95 per cent which was the figure of last year's rental. Sixty-nine more students are now living in the Houses this year due to the reduction of rents which went into effect this fall...
...president suggested an interesting comparison between his own field and business administration. Chemistry, as a practical profession, evolved from alchemy only when the chemist Boyle wrote a book revealing the known facts candidly and ridiculing the veil of secrecy which had caused distrust of the whole science. "At present," said President Conant, "we are lifting the veil from the field of business and economics and it too is emerging as a highly useful profession...
...diverse courses in the field of Biology, Botany 2 is perhaps the most enjoyable. Certainly this can be said for the department of Botany itself, a unit small enough for accurate comparison...
...into business, private competitors are generally able to attack its bookkeeping methods on the ground that it pays no taxes, no interest on its investment, sets aside nothing for depreciation or amortization. Operators of privately-owned utilities which must meet these costs argue that there can be no fair comparison between their service rates and those charged by plants publicly subsidized. Last week private operators shook their heads in wonder, worry and skepticism when the Tennessee Valley Authority, President Roosevelt's greatest experiment in public ownership and operation, moved to meet in advance and silence this line of argument...