Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...road . . ." Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Viking; 282 pages; $20.95) opens this way: "We were coming down our road." The echo sounds intentional, as if Doyle, with fine Irish fatalism, knows that all books about Dublin's seedy, seething street life carry the curse of invidious comparison with the works of the master. Why not invoke it at the top and then get on with the story...
...record of the 103rd is still striking, not only by comparison with past Congresses but also with its own performance early on. Part of the reason is simply that for the first time in a dozen years, the same party controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress. No longer did legislators design measures, like an early version of campaign-finance reform, to provoke a President into casting politically embarrassing vetoes. Paradoxically, though, campaign reform is being delayed by the absence of any veto threat; Congress is moving cautiously because it knows that almost anything it passes will become...
...insurance agency, notes that wealthy and sophisticated Latin American businessmen are now using Miami not just for hit-and-run business trips but also as a base of operations that offers a security they can't find in their own countries. (Even Miami's violent-crime rate pales by comparison with the kidnappings, terrorism and guerrilla warfare that many Latins face in cities like Rio de Janeiro, Medellin or Lima.) "Venezuelans, Brazilians and increasing numbers of Argentines are investing in Miami, developing hotels and purchasing malls," says Suquet. "They are setting up businesses here, buying homes in Coral Gables...
About 80,000 visitors came to the museums last year, generating $160,000 in revenue. In comparison, the Boston Museum of Arts had 801,647 visitors and charges $7 for admission. The Isabelle Stuart Gardner Museum, another famous museum located in Boston, charges $6 for admission. Friedmann said she doesn't expect the rate increase to affect the number of visitors...
...French monarchical itch to build upon the nation's patrimony. His Grand Louvre renovation, launched in 1981, was once attacked as an exercise in Socialist self-aggrandizement. Today the project is described by Jacques Toubon, the new Gaullist Minister of Culture, as "a historic and cultural space without comparison in the world...