Word: liken
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...Glyndebourne are the conductors -- Bernard Haitink led Figaro -- and the directors. Sir Peter Hall has done some of his best stagings here, as have Trevor Nunn and Jonathan Miller. But the key to Glyndebourne's success is the dozen or so coaches who prepare each opera meticulously. Beneficiaries liken their teaching to having a superb master class every day. Christie notes that "coaches have an awkward job mediating between the conductor and the singer. They need a feeling for what's best for the composer." Their ranks tend to be drawn from people on their way to becoming conductors...
...part by making purchases of such things as houses and cars harder to finance. Republican Congressman Toby Roth of Wisconsin complained to Greenspan last week, "Many of us feel that you're taking away the punch bowl as the guests are still taking their coats off." But Fed officials liken early moves against inflation to taking away the punch bowl before the party gets out of hand...
...pardon the rambling analogy of an economics (and history) concentrator, I liken this phenomenon to a system of credits and debits in which we all try to avoid red ink on the balance sheet of our personal pride...
...their ranting and raving about the policy they liken themselves to Jews being persecuted by Hitler. What they fail to realize is that instead of writing a whining letter to The Crimson, all they had to do was find out how the problem might be solved: ;last year, the students proposed to Dean Nathans and Dean Young a system they liked better, and after a meeting of proctors it was adopted, They also assume that Linda Boland is the evil mastermind behind this plot, when in reality the current system was originally created and approved...
President Clinton has been compared to a lot of different people. His admirers liken his appeal to John F. Kennedy '40. His opponents see in his background and his performance Jimmy Carter. Pretentious Northerners sometimes view him as a smarter version of the Southern "Bubba." And of course, music-lovers think he looks like a poor man's Elvis. On evaluating his first year in office, I have concluded that he is none of these. In fact, Clinton is the real-life incarnation of the Energizer Bunny...