Word: comparison
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...that pales in comparison to what the foundation has done for the public imagination. For decades, the field of global health had languished, and there was a consensus that little could be done to change the fate of the poorest of the poor. Jim Kim, until recently director of WHO's department of HIV/AIDS, refers to that dark period as BGF (Before the Gates Foundation). Now, says Kim, "the Gates Foundation has made global health cool...
...meeting that offering students a “rich curriculum” without requiring them to take many specific types of classes was similar to offering students healthy food at the dining hall but not requiring them to eat it, the minutes report that some chairs found the comparison to be a “disanalogy...
...embarrassments may not sound particularly hilarious, but, trust me, it is. Baumbach?s sympathy for the all-too-human spectacle of lust pratfalling over itself makes the film as funny as it is painful. The only appropriate response to this lacerating brood - whose troubles make the Saraband family, by comparison, seem like the Andersons from Father Knows Best - is the laughter of shock and compassion...
...central relationship between Darrow and Driscoll seems awkward when they attempt to speak to each other. Their sexual chemistry is inexplicable, especially in comparison to Darrow and Kong’s bond, which is as romantic as anything in a Meg Ryan flick. Kong turns his back on Darrow after saving her from a flock of dinosaurs, which inspres her to run after him is a stripped down and true account of the animalistic nature of desire...
...Harvard planners look to the future, much of their focus is on the campus that will span the Cambridge and Allston sides of the Charles River. While the University’s property in its third host city of Watertown may be small in comparison, it provides both another potential location for expansion and a model for successful community collaboration...