Word: comparisons
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Moreover, the United States' economy remains far less dependent on international trade than that of virtually any other industrialized nation. Clearly, in any bargaining situation the United States has the greater leverage in comparison to our major trading partners. We can and should use such power to pry open the markets of other nations for our benefit and for the benefit of the world economy...
...paint off the walls with his mount-'em-up speech. He promises not what he will do as President, but what "we" will do--shut down the border, get out of world organizations, impose tariffs. The result is a subtle but powerful co-opt of the listener. Dole, by comparison, still talks about that guy Bob Dole, as if he were just a stand-in for the real candidate...
...more anti-free trade. Talk to them, and you will hear 71% say the country is in deep and serious trouble, 60% that the U.S. should radically reduce its role in international affairs, 56% that the G.O.P. platform should call for a constitutional ban on abortion. (By way of comparison, just 22% of Dole's supporters want an antiabortion amendment, 24% of Alexander's and 18% of Forbes'.) They tend to agree with him so strongly on some points that they agree to disagree with him on others: 27% of his supporters have said they are pro-choice...
...people who sound as though they've been reading Roland Barthes between mutilations," says TIME's Ginia Bellafante. The story 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. But the problem with 'Alice' is not so much its barrage of appalling imagery as the author's insistence on using the imagery to make naive, amorphous political statements. Homes says she was inspired to write the book after Jesse Helms' attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts. Unfortunately...
...class chuckled at the comparison of football to childbirth, but the male insights are appreciated by the class, according to students...