Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comparison, Yale University's roughly $3 billion endowment returned 17.3 percent in the same period. Yale has outperformed Harvard for five straight and eight of the last 10 years...
...comparison, Harvard's goalie, freshman Kate Schutt, has given up only 6.18 goals per game and has blocked 57.2 percent of all incoming shots...
According to a comparison of average returns onthe 10 largest university endowments from1983-1992, as reported in the Wall Street Journal,Harvard paid the highest price for its investmentmanagement and received a below average return of14.9 percent...
Cachan's first mistake is his comparison of the right to smoke with the increase of speed limits and allowing the consumption of alcoholic beverages. His point is that if we allow these other actions that, like smoking, lead to more deaths, then we likewise ought to ignore the second-hand effects of smoking and should therefore oppose curbs on its practice...
...naive Ariel of "The Little Mermaid." Her voice brings life to Thumbelina's giggling, almost Barbie-like appearance, though her partner Prince Cornelius, a sixteen year old adventurer with a haircut somewhere between a crew cut and a bowl cut, has a voice that seems a little forced in comparison...