Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stake were 67 delegates in Ohio, 59 in Illinois, 57 in Michigan and 36 in Wisconsin--219 in all. Based on preliminary results yesterday, Dole had 951 delegates in The Associated Press count--drawing near the 996 necessary to clinch nomination. Buchanan, by comparison, had but 86 delegates...
Also, Ms. Milgrom-Elcott's comparison of sexual offender registration laws to laws in the past which have abridged free speech is ludicrous. First of all, freedom of speech is a long standing fundamental right, and secrecy about one's criminal past has, as I pointed out, never been one. Also, while many of the old laws restricting speech under the guise of national emergency were merely thinly veiled methods of suppressing political dissent, sexual offender registration laws have no such hidden motive, unless one wishes to argue that keeping secret from one's neighbors that one has kidnapped...
...Croce. Why actually wade through the book when we know from the publicity what we're in for: a story that demands to disturb and repulse, a portrait of a sick mind filled with sexual imagery repellent enough to make Robert Mapplethorpe photos look like Tommy Hilfiger ads by comparison...
Although the anonymous cab driver admits that he has been annoyed by drunken students returning home on Friday and Saturday nights, he says this pales in comparison to the time he was nearly beaten up in Boston's Roxbury-Dorchester area by a passenger who refused to pay his fare...
...competitive industry once totally dominated by American firms. A U.S. retaliation in the form of subsidies for Boeing would counteract such gains and even drive the nations that subsidize Airbus to the bargaining table, where an agreement eliminating subsidies could be worked out. This would benefit both sides in comparison to a policy where both sides subsidize their domestic producers...