Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rostrum, Chief Soviet Planner Nikolai Baibakov manfully defended the progress of the current 1965-70 five-year plan. He conceded that next year there would be only a modest wage increase of 3% for factory and office workers and 4.6% for collective farmers. Nevertheless, Baibakov boasted that in comparison with 15 years ago, "every 100 families in 1970 will have 71 radios as against 61, 52 washing machines as against 21, and 32 refrigerators instead of only eleven." His list, however, could not mask the fact that progress in the crucial area of consumer goods has been disappointing; shortages persist...
...comparison, Harvard has only five men returning from its first boat, and its freshman crew lost to Penn's twice. But Harry Parker is the Harvard coach, and his exceptional rowing knowledge and rare inspirational abilities may well offset Penn's manpower advantages...
Once again we see he ironic efficiency with which the University can enforce its dictates on student "rights and responsibilities," in comparison with the lethargy and footdragging that characterize its efforts to meet its own responsibilities. Let the issue be one of securing court injunctions or activating the Subcommittee of Six, and the response is instantaneous and effective. When the issues turn on acting to end restrictive hiring practices in construction of its own buildings-the shameful situation which has caused students to violate these rules of procedural "responsibility" -then we see everything from outright lies to constant shifs...
Under the Soc Rel department, they say they have had no cohesive intellectual community, and sociology as a discipline has been relatively weak in comparison with departments at large universities like Columbia and Berkeley. The sociologists feel that a separate department would facilitate growth of a community of sociologists and of the discipline itself...
...shall carry the rest of their lives." The burden of the message was clear: right-thinking Americans must choose between those who win the red badge of courage and those who wave the red flag of dishonor. Without question, the more extreme antiwar partisans have earned that kind of comparison. The real issue, however, is not the courage of those who fight the war but whether their courage is being expended wisely...