Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Understand, the idea of Jobs returning to Apple is something akin to that of Luke Skywalker returning to fight what, until last week, cultists regarded as the evil empire. Gates, by comparison, was perceived as a dweeb Darth Vader, the billionaire bad guy who usurped the idea of the Macintosh's friendly point-and-click operating system for his now dominant Microsoft Windows...
...Rube Goldberg contraption" [NOTEBOOK, July 28]. Mir was built and has operated on a virtual shoestring for more than twice as long as intended by its original design specifications. While it is not sophisticated by U.S. standards, it has made valuable contributions to the body of scientific knowledge. By comparison, America's aerospace program has been historically bloated, redundant and rife with its own spectacular failures, including the Hubble Space Telescope, Apollo 13, failed Vanguard launches and, yes, the unfortunate deaths in the Challenger disaster. I applaud the joint space effort. There is no need for a space race among...
...Autumn's father--he denies it, while admitting he had sex with her mother--was ruled irrelevant at the trial. But last week on CNBC's Rivera Live, Cosby attorney Jack Schmitt dropped a bombshell: he said Cosby was having blood drawn--"as we speak"--for a DNA comparison, to try to settle the paternity matter once and for all. Schmitt challenged Autumn Jackson to do the same...
Senator Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, opposes Governor William Weld's nomination as ambassador to Mexico because he feels Weld is not "ambassador quality." As a public service, we hereby provide a comparison of Weld's resume with that of former Mexican ambassador John Gavin, who served under President Ronald Reagan and was confirmed by Senator Helms...
...works, an endless stream of flowers, landscapes, crosses and skulls that generated enormous attention and an O'Keeffe industry that rarely flagged. In 1987, a year after her death at age 98, 438,000 people visited her retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. (By comparison, Andrew Wyeth--perhaps postwar America's most cherished artist--drew 558,000 visitors to his retrospective at the National Gallery.) That same year O'Keeffe's Black Hollyhock with Blue Larkspur, 1929, was sold at auction for the artist's record of $1.98 million. In the decade since, her paintings have seen...