Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resort guest's propensity to write off the lives of the locals as insignificant in comparison to their own grandiose existence, they sometime forget that the freedom locals have is precisely what they lack. These pompous guests I see every day at the ski resort are people for whom freedom was traded for money, success and one week of skiing a year. These are people we are in danger of becoming...
...look at the amount of money we spent for these great, grand, beautiful buildings," the salaries for directors pale in comparison he said...
Another distortion in Oppenheim's column is the comparison between past movements for racial/gender equity and the current pro-queer movement. Oppenheim inherits the subtler arguments of those who would keep women in the kitchen and blacks at the back of the bus because they felt society was not ready. At one point, America looked unready for gender and racial equality; radical activism changed that. If America looks unready for non-heterosexual orientations to be accepted, it is because we are hopefully in the process of moving towards acceptance...
...what does Jupiter's crystal ball say about the rest of this year? It predicts nearly twice as much money -- $1.9 billion -- for 1998. Even better news awaits those web sites still in the game by the end of the century: $7.7 billion in 2002. Cable TV, by comparison, had ad sales of $7.4 billion last year. And look how healthy (cough,cough) cable...
...street. it isn't as if suddenlyMcDonald's appears and changes everything. In factthe company has to change itself. The book dealswith one food system in five different places. Asin a controlled comparison. It's just a lens. Youcould take anything--KFC, Baskin Robbins, a goodexample is Kellogg's breakfast cereals. How isAmerican breakfast cereal spread around the worldand adapted in various ways...