For others it was more broadly social - how they felt they were treated compared with others.
JPMorgan is taking money through the Treasury's capital plan, but the diverse commercial bank company has endured the credit crisis relatively well compared with others.
You may think that the current economic mess and mortgage foreclosure crisis generating an overall decline in credit scores will lower the bar for you compared with others.
Free school meals are a standard poverty indicator - used by the inspectorate, Ofsted, to judge how well one school is doing compared with others "in similar circumstances".
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It also points to your place on the food chain: People who are high-status tend to look longer at people they're talking to, compared with others, says a 2009 research review in Image and Vision Computing.
Of those, 129 had injuries from firearms, and those injuries were extremely serious compared with the others.
They yawned 50% more frequently in response to seeing members of their group yawn compared with seeing others yawn.
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Within six months, those counselled had reduced the level of their risky behaviours by 50% compared with the others.
Compared with many others in a similar situation in Coventry at the start of last year, I've been very lucky.
"Compared with the others BT is in a much stronger position because it has a massive number of customer relations already, " said Toby Syfret, a television market analyst at Enders Analysis.
CATIE, which is following patients randomly assigned to an antipsychotic for two years, could finally settle the debate over whether there is an advantage--or a big risk--associated with any one of these necessary medicines, compared with the others.
Obviously the game will be compared to many others with similar themes, most notably the Uncharted series and Far Cry 3.
In other words, we are compared with ourselves, not others.
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They studied 1, 433 Americans who have had meningiomas and compared them with 1, 350 others who have not.
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Those who spent 25 percent less time alone and 70 percent more time talking to others, as compared with the unhappiest participants.
People are less concerned about absolute levels of wages or standards of living, compared with how they are doing relative to others.
For de Waal, these experiments complement research showing that people are less concerned about absolute levels of wages or standards of living, compared with how they are doing relative to others.
Samsung Executive Vice President Young Lee, head of the company's European operations, said at the meeting that Samsung knew it wasn't going to bring in "big volumes" of government contracts, compared with its consumer market, but said others would surely follow, according to the meeting notes.
And they compared the patients who had NDEs with groups of others who didn't.
Some rewards are huge, others modest, particularly when compared with the damage wrongdoers have done.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota compared eight people who had been diagnosed with hypersexuality with others who had been diagnosed with impulse-control disorders like gambling or attention deficit disorder.
Nothing wrong with parents complaining if their school is doing badly compared to others within the same group.
America, Britain and others took on debts that now look steep compared with incomes and the value of the homes against which much of the money was borrowed.
If one body is much larger than its neighbours, such as the sun compared with the planets of the solar system, its effect dominates the others.
One was very similar to the three projects available to small investors, with the exception of a slightly shorter duration of eight years, compared to nine years for the others.
Researchers then compared the top 25 percent of people -- those who showed the most instability -- with the others in the group and found that the the ones with the highest instability in the lab were 10 times more likely to experience an arrhythmia sometime in the next three years.
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