Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration's 3.2% guideline-but productivity continued to rise about as fast as labor costs. Thanks to recent reductions in excise taxes, new cars cost 2.8% less than they did last spring, and air conditioners are 5.6% cheaper. Also holding down prices is the housewives' habit of comparison shopping. To help them, New York City's Markets Commissioner last week ordered that price tags be put on every item, from pins to pet boas, sold in the city. Cried Tiffany's Chairman Walter Moving, objecting to the idea of tagging the jewels in his windows...
Broadcasters' volume measurement machines do not seem able to detect it, but listeners' eardrums are evidently more sensitive. For years, radio and TV owners have been blitzing the Federal Communications Commission with complaints about the loudness of commercials in comparison to the sound level of programs. Last week, after a tedious two-year study, the FCC agreed with the complaints. They "obviously cannot be dismissed on the ground that 'commercials aren't really loud, they just sound loud,'" declared the commission. The presentation of commercials "in a loud, rapid and strident manner" is "contrary...
...early age (ten), sending the brightest through the rigorous, classics-oriented Gymnasium and on to the university; the rest attend the Mittelschule or the less exacting Volkschule, both roughly equivalent to American junior high schools. Currently, less than 7% of German youths enter the Gymnasium; in France, by comparison, almost 13% attend the equivalent lycée. Many wonder whether so small a number of high-level graduates can provide the intellectual skills to keep Germany's vaunted "economic miracle...
...halfway point, a rival ranged up to take the lead. But Bret responded with a burst of speed that carried him across the finish line three-quarters of a length in front. His time for the mile: 1 min. 59 2/5 sec.-a new track record. By comparison, last week's $21,434 Matron Stake at Michigan's Wolverine Raceway was strictly a breeze: ripping through the last 1 mile in 29 sec. flat, Bret whinnied all the way to a six-length victory...
...unity," "collaboration," and "interdisciplinary work" figure prominently in Berry's writings and speeches. "The whole Medical Center," he says, "is based on the simple belief that in union there is strength." Berry is much given to using analogies to illustrate his points, and one of his favorites is the comparison of the Faculty of Medicine to a symphony orchestra. "In both groups you have many people playing many different parts, and in both, greatness amounts to the totality of 'orchestration.'" Unshakable faith in the idea that the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts has led Berry...