Comparison
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A useful point of
comparison
is what industrialized countries spend on their statistical services.
But these dismissals pale in
comparison
to a government-imposed blackout in early February.
A brief history of the concept, and a
comparison
with another term that also became discredited by overuse, helps to explain what happened.
This time the subject is no longer Russia versus China, because Russia has long ceased to be a point of
comparison.
If that happens, the Russia-China debate might be revived, this time as a
comparison
of competitive decadence.
But this
comparison
does not bear serious examination.
ISIS’s leaders would not be happy with the comparison, but their group’s rapid emergence on the map has drawn some lessons from Israel.
According to the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, the current rate for bribes to avoid conscription is as high as $5,000 (for comparison, a typical lieutenant’s monthly salary is about $500).
By comparison, a top minister receives more than $800,000, according to a government study.
Though a precise
comparison
is difficult, there is no doubt that China’s capital coefficient is much higher, implying a larger gap between the growth rate of capital intensity (the total amount of capital needed per dollar of revenue) and that of labor productivity.
While unusual, Trump’s griping pales in
comparison
to President Jimmy Carter’s nationally televised admonition to the Fed to lower interest rates in the midst of the raging inflation of the late 1970s.
By
comparison
with the late 1990’s, however, the space for political discourse has undeniably narrowed, crushing expectations that the country would continue on a liberalizing course.
By comparison, in the US and Germany, the share of the population with a tertiary education rose by a more modest 25%.
The
comparison
between these two approaches is clear.
By comparison, 90% of civilian research in America is peer reviewed.
The largest number (22%) answered “moral values,”
comparison
to 20% who cited the economy and 19% who mentioned terrorism.
The
comparison
between Trump and Berlusconi is far from superficial.
But the study didn’t cover the potential benefits of employing insecticide-treated nets as a tool for fighting malaria, ruling out a
comparison
of the two investments’ returns.
While Lula didn’t repeat his
comparison
with a football game, neither did he criticize the repression, unlike Sarkozy, who did so strongly.
This will inevitably arouse suspicion about Germany’s role in Europe – but any
comparison
with Germany's past is quite inappropriate.
In comparison, the UN estimates that half that amount could buy clean drinking water, sanitation, basic health care, and education for every single person in the world.
In comparison, Greece’s fiscal gap is roughly 1,100% of its GDP, whereas its official debt is 120% of GDP.
Mexico also ranks very low in
comparison
with high-income countries in the quality of its science and mathematics education, and its efforts in scientific research.
For example, Mexico spends only around one-third of one percent of GNP on research and development, while Korea (as a comparison) spends more than 2% of GNP on research and development.
In comparison, Arizona has never looked so good.
The Social Security deficit pales by
comparison
with the deficits created by Bush’s huge tax cuts for upper-income Americans or in
comparison
with the deficit in Medicare, which provides health care for the aged.
But such figures, though large, pale in
comparison
with the $305 trillion worth of financial assets held by commercial banks, institutional investors, and other private financial institutions and individuals.
But, as a
comparison
with Spain reveals, faster wage growth elsewhere cannot be the entire story.
Yet the
comparison
with what the French call laicité is misleading.
But the
comparison
to Reagan suggests that there may be other, broader implications.
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