Word: comparisons
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Americans seem to be divided into two camps on the subject of the Congress of the United States: those who consider it an ethical swamp and those who regard that comparison as unfair to swamps. As the members return to work this week, they have an even worse public image to contemplate: not only sleazier but more paralyzed as well. Last week's indictment and demotion of Dan Rostenkowski, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was a double whammy. In a short time he has come to symbolize both Congress's lingering tawdriness and its desperate need...
...replacements -- unions had almost abandoned the strike weapon. Fewer than 4 million workdays were lost to strikes and lockouts in 1993, the lowest figure in the 47 years that the government has been keeping those statistics and less than one-fifteenth of the record 60.9 million in 1959. A comparison of the first four months of this year to the same period in 1993 shows that the number of workers on strike tripled, to 162,000, and lost workdays quadrupled, to 1.6 million...
According to a comparison of the long-run returns of the 10 largest university endowments reported last July in The Wall Street Journal, Harvard paid the highest price for its investment management but received a below-average annual return of 14.9 percent between...
While those performances--particularly the Princeton loss--were, disappointing, they paled in comparison to the Heptagonals performance October...
...argue that the sacrifices of his own generation must match those of its parents, if in a different way. And perhaps, they add, he may put his problems in some perspective: with the cliffs looming above Omaha Beach in the background, even the challenges facing Clinton seem small by comparison...