Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cost of land and operating expenses simply is not in our hands at the municipal level of government. It can--and must--be put into our hands by the Commonwealth and the Federal government. That has not been done so far. (Cited figures on national spending for housing in comparison to other purposes). A complete answer to the Cambridge housing crisis, and the housing problem in any city, depends ultimately on a fundamental, dramatic shifting a national spending priorities...
...Ridiculous! I refer to "Changing Morality: The Two Americas" and especially to the comparison "A doctor who refuses a house call to someone who is seriously ill is worse than a homosexual." I mean, what is the point? That doctors are better than homosexuals? What'if the doctor himself is a homosexual (take a TIME-Harris Poll on that one)? I mean to say the questions were so worded, the comparisons so ridiculous, that it is no wonder intelligent people are questioning the polls-and no wonder they've proved wrong time and time again...
...gratuitous aside ("That was Gene McCarthy; he didn't know when he was licked"), Witcover usually keeps his feelings for Kennedy in check: his high esteem for the man comes through all the stronger because he also criticizes some of his actions. Taking Halberstam's Hamlet comparison a step further, Witcover sees...
What sets her apart from competing fast-buck writers is her extraordinary show-business savvy and an almost unlimited fondness for self-promotion. When it comes to flogging the product personally, the others are plodding dilettantes by comparison...
...Clover. To support this conclusion, she darts around history hunting for examples like a bee in a clover field. Ancient Mohenjo-daro in the Indus Valley, Tokyo in 1900, medieval Antwerp are all plundered for signs of stagnation or growth. But her key comparison is drawn from 19th century England. In the 1840s, says Jane Jacobs, Manchester looked like a model of progress and modernity. It had become a rich, gigantic industrial machine for cranking out textiles. By contrast, Birmingham then seemed outmoded. It was "a muddle of oddments," where myriad small firms busily made saddles, harnesses, tools, buttons, guns...