Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long. It is baseball on a human scale. When Peoria Chiefs designated hitter Alex Cabrera was fined $50 this month for illegally grooving his bat, he complained that it was "too expensive." A carpenter or a schoolteacher can relate to that. Fifty bucks is a lot of money. By comparison, the average millionaire in the major leagues seems to be laboring, or not laboring, in the far reaches of fantasyland...
...sharply scaled-back outlet near the downtown area of St. Johnsbury (pop. 8,000) as the price of admission to Vermont. Not that it will be a mere boutique. At 75,000 sq. ft., the store will dominate the town's landscape, yet it will still be modest by comparison with the discount palaces of 120,000 sq. ft. that Wal- Mart has built in other states. The concession could accelerate Wal-Mart's expansion in New England at a time when the company is beginning to run out of other U.S. locations and is moving abroad -- from Canada...
...building brouhaha is really no big deal if you comparison-shop, Washington style. The $310 million price tag, TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson points out, is far short of $2 billion for just one of the CIA's KH-12 satellites. And it's just one-eighth the cost of a B-2 bomber: "$300 million?" Thompson notes. "That's barely enough for an airbag...
...method of payout is of overriding importance in termination packages. Attached is a detailed comparison of two payout plans as follows...
...game's premier stats solon and most passionate fan stir-fries the old debate about who does and doesn't deserve to be there. "The Hall of Fame," he writes, "has never really thought through the issue of how to identify the most worthy Hall of Famers." His evidence: comparison of players' records and eyewitness testimony. Exhibit A: Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto, whose exclusion from the Hall stoked a 30-year ruckus...