Even if you compare the time the Americans put into collecting information on Russia during the Cold War, it is not comparable to what they are doing now with Iran.
This makes it hard, for instance, to compare real-time video images (from a camera in the nose-cone of a missile, for example) with a set of several thousand targets (pictures of enemy aircraft, say), because all the targets have to be tested within a thirtieth of a second, the duration of a single frame of video.
Dividends are stable over time, so this ratio lets us compare stock prices at different points in time.
Any antitrust expert will tell you it is dangerous to compare antitrust cases across time and market space.
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We didn't have much time to compare music playback with other phones, but audio quality with various headphones and earbuds was up to our higher-than-average standards.
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Check your policies: Use couch time to compare insurance quotes from at least five different car insurance companies to see if you can save money on your car insurance rates before the end of the year, says Ohman.
It may be someone from a chain drug store or from any other kind of pharmacy, The pharmacist, unlike the MD, can take the time to compare medications and review the list of what your parent is taking.
There really is no good way to compare sums over that period of time.
Then watch the indexes and compare your performance to them over time.
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Now compare that to Shanghai in the same time, Shanghai's benchmark composite index rose 130 percent.
For those shopping ahead of time, it pays to compare the prices with benchmarks.
Many titles, particularly racing games, let you upload your best time to see how you compare to others.
Although this was a widespread outage, neither the cause nor the recovery time should be used to compare it with a deliberate, well coordinated terrorist attack on the electrical transmission system.
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The convention was divided on whether its constitution should be ready in November, so that the country could compare the two, or whether more time should be taken and as many Zimbabweans involved as possible.
You should also consider variables like prescription drug benefits and the number of allowable doctor visits or hospital stays per year. eHealthinsurance.com allows users to compare up to four plans at a time, across some 25 categories and exceptions.
Consider this: Economic historians have calculated that if you compare living standards in Athens at the time of Pericles and in London in 1800, they had changed, over those 2, 200 years, growth was at far less than one-tenth of 1 percent per year.
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Over time, the lab plans to compare their traditional development efforts with those that incorporate challenges.
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For the first time it will be possible to compare representations of the Holocaust in school textbooks and national curricula.
All of them fall short of the medical gold standard: clinical trials in which researchers randomly give patients one treatment or another and compare the results after a set period of time.
The authors of the study say it was the first to compare police and hospital data and that its four year time span was longer than other CCTV evaluations.
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Much like Manhattan apartment brokers who resist putting their best properties on a central listing service, PE firms use performance measurements like multiple of investment or internal rate of return that make it virtually impossible to compare one fund against another unless they started the same time and have had similar cash inflows and outflows.
You'd have to remove the headset every time you need to read anything, much less compare weapons or assign skills.
Taking more time to search allowed you to be able to compare more properties and gather more information to inform your rental negotiation.
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Class warriors eagerly compare the relative performance of wage earners in various income brackets over time.
Fans can compare players of different eras and dream up their own all-time all-star team.
First, decide ahead of time what kind of credit product you want, and compare potential offers before heading to campus.
Users can then come back at a later time to look at items of interest, or easily compare multiple items from different searches.
For the first time, there are enough of the elderly around to compare their genetic makeups and see what differences can explain why some people live a full century and others make it only three-quarters of the way.
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Vimeo users can search through a robust library of more than 500 Looks, dynamically see each Look applied to a frame of their own video (not a stock image), compare against their original and preview the enhanced video in real-time.
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Over time, with growing databases across the population, you can compare yourself to any of your cohorts.
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