Word: comparisons
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...officials didn't want to take the comparison too far. The problem, noted an American involved in the talks, is that "only one of them is visionary." And he didn't mean Netanyahu...
However, in fiscal 1994 Harvard's returns ranked in the top 5 percent of institutional funds with assets between $1 and $10 billion, according to the Trust Universe Comparison Service (TUCS). But in fiscal 1995 Harvard's endowment returned below the 16.9 percent TUCS median...
This conclusion becomes even more apparent through a comparison of the weakest installation, "Presence," which relies entirely on the spoken word, versus the most potent installation, "Interval," at which visual images are presented so quickly as to defy cognition. "Presence," in which the audience sits on a bench in a dim room while an audiotape of a woman's fretting over her childhood is played at varying levels of volume and clarity, is a tribute to the most banal of self-help confessionals, rather than focusing the audience's attention on a little examined sense, the nature of sound. "Interval...
Elizabeth, by comparison, has been slower to fill in the blanks and undress the contradictions. On the rare occasions when she talks about her faith, she can wow audiences who don't expect spirituality from a woman who teeters on high heels in an age of sensible shoes. She smiles a lot, as if to encourage her husband by example, and wears suits with such obsessively matched accessories that voters may be forgiven if they forget that this is the woman who is responsible for those little lights at the center of the rear windows of our cars that tell...
...insist that he is genuinely shy. Shy? A man who once made a speech dressed in a bunny suit? He admits he will do almost anything to advance his companies. It's an act that plays well, and compared with the standard model overstuffed British executive--well, the comparison just isn't fair. Sir David Frost, the transatlantic television personality and partner in Virgin Radio, says, "Richard has always presented himself as a rebel against the Establishment, although now he is an establishment...