Word: comparisons
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Herschbach jokes that his own research in chemistry is comparable to "molecular football," an unusual comparison for a tenured chemistry professor, certainly, but Herschbach did have other career options...
...boring compared to his neurotic comrades. Watching him grow increasingly frustrated at their madness gives the audience fodder for amusement rather than a plea for sympathy. Leach portrays the perfect Yossarian--a man who has as many cyclical complexes as those around him, but whose personality grows pale in comparison to the army-green circus going on around...
...labor, anti-NAFTA Democrats that refuse to crack, a defiant group that could sink the measure ? and that, come 2000, could make the Republican Party look positively united by comparison...
...comparison to the O.J. Simpson trial made by The Boston Globe is revealing. Like the O.J. murder trial--with its dimensions concerning race, sex and violence in a country discomforted by any blending of these three--the dangerous au pair and the endangered children case has hit a never in our national psyche. The Woodward case is every parent's nightmare realized. Two working parents left their infant alone with a stranger, and that stranger abused and ultimately killed their child. If the Religious Right ever needs a poster-baby for its family values arguments, it doesn't have...
This fall, the EPC is using a variety of sources to propose new requirements, including past College practices. In addition to using the Registrar's statistics, the committee also solicits data, "for comparison, from peer institutions," Knowles says...