Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goya outside of Spain, the painting's near $75,000 price tag, says Lee, provoked "great weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth" among his board. But he more than made up for it with the Ribera-found hanging in a dark museum staircase in Geneva, Switzerland-which, by comparison, cost but a song...
...Inevitably, the continuing downturn caused some to recall that awful autumn of 1929. There was, in fact, no comparison. The industrial average in '29 stood half as high as it does now-the year's peak was 381.17 -and the market took terrifying tumbles with only about half the volume of trading. On '29's infamous Tuesday, Oct. 29, the day the market crashed, the average plunged by 30.57 points. In that October alone, the industrials lost about as much (20%) as they have all this year. From 1929's high to its low they...
...pills have been suspected as possible factors in some women's deaths, but the report found no clear evidence of the pills' guilt. The committee's difficulty was that there are few reliable bases for comparison-no one knows the incidence of various disorders and diseases among women generally, including those who have never taken the pills...
...charges that one prisoner had a severe reaction to DMSO, but that this was not acknowledged in the Kligman report, that Dr. Kligman al lowed his comparison subjects to take other investigational drugs, instead of a dummy (placebo), thus rendering his conclusions meaningless, and that he reported blood tests on patients who were not even in the hospital at the time he claimed. Dr. Kligman has the right to ask the FDA to review its action...
...comparison, Radcliffe rules, during the regular year, are utopian...