Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...families have incomes of less than $3,000 a year; one-fourth of all farm homes and one-fifth of all rural nonfarm homes are without running water; the educational attainment of rural dwellers lags two years behind that of their urban cousins, and health facilities are poor by comparison. "These deficiencies," the President said, "leave too few resources to support education, health, and other public services essential to development of the talent, skills and earning power of the people...
...Comparison shopping is the housewife's sole-searing equivalent of a bureaucrat's requesting sealed bids from competing contractors. But there are times when something gets lost in the translation, as Mary Scranton, 46, wife of Pennsylvania's Republican Governor, found to her sorrow when she submitted a $1,554 bill to the state for some rust-patterned draperies made for her husband's reception room by a Harrisburg decorator. "Absolutely illegal," sniffed the auditor general, a Democrat, refusing to pay on grounds that she hadn't asked for sealed bids. "A bargain...
...same N.Y. organization charters a jet, NYC to Frankfurt at a round trip cost of $252 per seat. Also for comparison the Columbia University Charters are sold for $190 to $245 for a jet and $215 to $259 for a DC-7. Note that there is no great difference in cost between a jet and a prop-jet and a DC-7 based on a per seat cost. HSA has raised its prices for jets this summer to $271 to $310 Again I ask HSA to make public its costs and to clearly show where the "profits" from the Charter...
String & Scribbles. Duchamp's Solomon Grundy career became legend, all the more quixotic because his two brothers, Painter Jacques Villon and Sculptor Duchamp-Villon, went on to make careers in art that placed them near the top of their generation. By comparison, Marcel Duchamp seemed like a naughty boy who ties enigmatic, impudent, possibly lewd messages to balloons, then lets them fly off into the blue yonder. But now, 42 years after he abandoned art, his messages have come down to earth. Far from being gibberish, the scribblings now seem cryptic formulas for the future...
...comparison is about the nastiest accusation ever leveled against Adams, an urbane and skeptical politician who, for all his impatience with his contemporaries, respected their right to differ with him-most notably in his gallant defense of British soldiers after the Boston Massacre. Robespierre, by contrast, labored under a crabbed, crass perversion of Enlightenment philosophy that allowed no room for disagreement or human foible. Those who did not share that vision were packed off to the guillotine; some 17,000 were beheaded during the Terror. By equating Virtue with Terror, Robespierre set a comforting precedent for every subsequent despot from...