Word: comparison
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...conflict between the two bodies was over the time for an alternative panel lecture on Saturday. This point, an extremely minor one in comparison with the pressing issue of minority and women faculty recruitment, came to dominate both the debate in council and the reporting of the debate...
...A.N.C. going into negotiations in a weak position in comparison with the government...
...Government estimates that among 100,000 crew members who spend 20 years on an average route, such radiation will cause 600 "premature cancer deaths." By comparison, cancer from all causes may kill 22,000 of that same group. Frequent travelers who spend half as much time in the air as pilots do, or about nine hours a week, will incur half the risk. Exposure varies dramatically with altitude and proximity to the poles. A year spent flying the great-circle route from New York City to Tokyo will subject a crew to 30 times the risk of a year...
...only fair standard is this one: How have the Western democracies reacted in similar conditions of war, crisis and insurrection? The morally relevant comparison is not with an American police force reacting to violent riots, say, in downtown Detroit. (Though even by this standard -- the standard of America's response to the urban riots of the '60s -- Israel's handling of the intifadeh has been measured.) The relevant comparison is with Western democracies at war: to, say, the U.S. during the Civil War, the British in Mandatory Palestine, the French in Algeria...
French conduct during the Algerian war was noted for its indiscriminate violence and systematic use of torture. In comparison, Israeli behavior has been positively restrained. And yet Israel faces a far greater threat. All the Algerians wanted, after all, was independence. They were not threatening the extinction of France. If Israel had the same assurance as France that its existence was in no way threatened by its enemies, the whole Arab-Israeli conflict could have been resolved decades...