Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comparison of Harvard with other elite institutions including Yale, Princeton and Johns Hopkins showed that all institutions paid women less than men, but women's salaries at Harvard were the lowest relative...
...official: "Every second sentence is wrong or a lie. He pours out his soul, but you don't know if he believes all that rubbish." He never says yes or no, never puts his own name to a formal agreement. While his vicious behavior in Kosovo has evoked comparison to Hitler, those who know him say Milosevic doesn't dream so large. "He wants to be the tinhorn dictator of Serbia forever," says a U.S. official. "Beyond that, nothing...
...Japanese comparison is itself tortured because of our vast cultural and economic differences. Still, Dow 10,000 represents a similar shared trust in the system--a trust that drove Japan to giddy heights and a crushing fall. In the Standard & Poor's 500, Morgan Stanley reports that just 15 stocks (3% of the total) accounted for 52% of the index's gain last year. "The market" may be going up, but it's almost entirely on the backs of a favored few: GE, IBM, Wal-Mart, Merck--all Dow components--along with tech wonders Microsoft, Dell (which...
...elegant fashion and, of course, the seductive men. Last week, as I sat in my Anthro seminar, lost as usual in daydreams of Paris and Milan, I was struck with a peculiar epiphany. Surprisingly enough, my biased idealization of European culture translates quite nicely into a self-serving comparison between Europe and the Quad. Though initially you may scoff at this unlikely analogy, it is a convenient means to convince myself and others that my life in Currier is second in glamour only to life in the City of Lights. Really, the evidence abounds...
Paling by comparison, the River's MAC quad is a poor excuse for an adequate stomping ground. Although the field is put to good use, its urban locale results in more broken windows and dented cars than are reported. And though the riverbank provides adequate sunbathing territory, female bikini-top bathers can expect an earful of lewd come-ons from anonymous passing drivers. Overall, the Quad field definitely offers more of a front lawn atmosphere, and is safely out of sight from Memorial Drivers...