Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more I learn about the resources that other Universities have for prevention and support that Harvard by comparison doesn't the more I'm also frustrating that it's something students have to continually raise, instead of some thing lead by the administration...
Disturbing as those stories were, their significance pales in comparison to a far less sensational piece published in the New England Journal of Medicine. A carefully conducted study found that doctors were 40% less likely to order sophisticated cardiac tests for women and blacks who complained about chest pain than for men and whites with identical symptoms. After subjecting the data to statistical tests to assure its reliability, the study's authors concluded that the disparity in what are literally life-and-death decisions about medical care was most likely due to unconscious biases about gender and race...
...comparison to this ideal, Daly's need for her course to consist of only women smacks of an ulterior political motive. Ultimately, it is not that there is something wrong with her "radical" views on feminism; it is that she is using the exclusion of men from classroom as a means to promote these views in an arena that has nothing to do with academics...
...lack of a House system at Dartmouth isthought by some to have contributed to thestrength of the Greek system there. According tosome College officials, Harvard's residentialsituations, by comparison, should foster closeHouse communities and eliminate a need fororganizations like final clubs...
...their taxes early and often for two reasons. First, if you end up being hounded for the money, you don't want the IRS on your case. The agency can and does garnish wages and place liens against or confiscate property. A credit-card company is a pussycat by comparison. Sometimes it will simply write you off as a cost of doing business and place a blot on your credit report. At worst, it will hand off your debt to a collection agency, which can plead and annoy but not confiscate. And should you file for bankruptcy, the first debts...