Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole before it is presented to the nation. Lyndon Johnson has made a practice of keeping the puzzle puzzling right up to the last minute: in past years, Administration aides leaked inflated budget totals in advance so that the final budget, even if a record, would look modest by comparison. Last week the White House announced that the budget for fiscal 1967 will probably be somewhere between $110 billion and $115 billion, a breach of the magic $100 billion figure and a much greater rise over this year's announced $99.7 billion than most people had expected. This time...
...research center at Entebbe that he has isolated reovirus 3* from seven victims of Burkitt's tumor. This finding alone might well have been pure coincidence, but there was additional evidence: antibody against reovirus 3 has been found in 73% of lymphoma patients, and in only 12% of comparison subjects from the same districts. From Australia came further word: mosquitoes carrying the same type of virus have been found there...
...comparison, No. 4-ranked Alabama's victory over unbeaten No. 3-ranked Nebraska in the Orange Bowl was too much of a massacre to class as an upset. Last season Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant's Crimson Tide won all ten regular-season games and were voted the nation's No. 1 team-only to lose to Texas in the Orange Bowl. This season the Associated Press shrewdly decided to wait until the bowl-game results were in before issuing its final rankings. With Steve Sloan hitting on 20 out of 29 passes, Alabama coasted...
...statutory duties of a Cambridge City Councillor are not great, and his influence is not extensive. The formal power he wields must often suffer by comparison with the staggering political chores he must do to remain in office...
...distortion of the printed statement lies in the addition of the word 'less' which implies that I was making some comparison with Harvard whereas in fact in this portion of my remarks I was speaking generally about the problem of selecting a school...