Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late as 1958-there were widespread fears that the drop was no mere recession but the start of a spiral back down into depression. In between, inflation and unemployment rates might be low (unbelievably so by today's standards) but so was the growth rate, at least by comparison with the Soviet Union. Maybe the U.S.S.R. really would "bury" us economically-a Nikita Khrushchev boast that was taken more seriously by Americans than it ever was by Khrushchev...
Earthquake experts now say that the quake in Western Japan is the deadliest to hit that country in 70 years. The death toll has now surpassed 4,000 and hundreds who are still missing are feared dead. By comparison, a 1928 quake in Fukui killed 3,769 people. Today, new fires flared in the city of Kobe as rescuers continued the monumental task of sifting through the wreckage for survivors. Six U.S. Air Force planes delivered 15,000 blankets to Kobe. The Japanese government has allocated $1 billion for earthquake relief and rebuilding. Each family that lost its head...
This kind of comparison, however, is too simplistic. The reasons people eat what they eat, and as much as they eat, go deeper than government programs, nutrition classes or even...
...television network. "What Paramount and Warner have done -- wisely, I think -- is to go out and try to tie up time periods first rather than sell, show by show. I think it's a very smart thing to do. But believe me, there's really no comparison between what they're building and what we have...
...poems as interesting chiefly for their personal revelations. He scants the trait that more than anything else defines Hardy as a poet: his structural inventiveness. The former architect retained a love of building. A recent study of Hardy estimates that he composed in more than 790 metrical forms. (A comparison with two other poets celebrated for their versatility is instructive: Swinburne wrote in about 420 forms; Browning in 200.) There's a great irony in this statistic. The most formally restless of English poets was, in his daily life, one of the most rooted...