The sort of price and quality information that could let a patient comparison-shop isn't yet readily available.
These obscurities make the task of comparison-shopping for the most affordable and appropriate college even more difficult.
Begala drew historical comparison -- between Clinton now and then-Vice President George H.
Instead, antitrust agencies around the globe have fixated on helping middlemen comparison-shopping sites such as Nextag and PriceGrabber, most of whom charge retailers for listings.
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And this leads to the second false premise of Internet dating: that choosing a mate should be a rational choice, in which people carefully comparison-shop for partners.
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Then again, booking directly through a hotel offers its own challenges, the most obvious being that finding the best property with the best deal can require a lot of time-consuming comparison-shopping.
The health-care law envisioned each of the 50 states running a marketplace where people without insurance could comparison-shop for policies and apply for subsidies to help them pay premiums.
Gennady Stolyarov, a Nevada insurance regulator, said in an email that officials "hope that this is just the beginning" of an effort to improve consumers' ability to comparison-shop for insurance.
James White's four-color monthly, the Payson Patriot, zaps the town's government for overspending, crusades against domestic violence and ferrets out the cheapest supermarkets (a comparison-shopping article found Wal-Mart beat competitors like Safeway for a basket of staple items).
Tancer is even working with researchers at Stanford to explore a new consumer confidence estimate based on search terms like "gas prices" and visits to thrifty comparison-shopping sites, which have climbed in response to this year's economic pain.
Under the new policy, which Google quietly rolled out in mid-October, the company highlights the products of paid advertisers on Google Shopping, its comparison-shopping service, while effectively discriminating against other companies who do not pay to be listed.
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The idea is to offer a place where Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking denizens of the Net -- 10 million and counting -- can comparison-shop for a mortgage, a car loan or insurance, as well as check stock quots and financial news.
The character stuff is so light on its feet that the action scenes seem flat in comparison -- the effects are first-rate, but they're nothing we haven't seen before, and the climactic showdown is a bit heavy-handed (if satisfyingly crunchy).
Judge Moon's opinion put the individual mandate in the context of the law's broader overhaul, writing that the law removes "many barriers to insurance coverage, " encourages small businesses to provide coverage and creates insurance exchanges where people can comparison-shop for plans.
The Internet shifts the bargaining power from sellers to consumers through comparison-shopping that lets consumers get better value per dollar spent Black Friday online transactions increased by 30 percent, while the average price per ticket was down 11 percent, according to Chasepaymentech.
It contains sweeping environmental obligations that make those entailed in the Kyoto accords pale by comparison - especially insofar as the Law of the Sea Tribunal has established that it believes its jurisdiction extends to activities on land and in the air if they might affect the world's oceans.
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There is then a TREND measure, showing the "aggregate" scores for this year and the previous three years, again with at-a-glance comparison bars - the maximum being 300.
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This suggests that one element of the solution will be labelling when Google's in-house services -- such as maps, airline flight details or shopping comparison information -- are artificially given a higher billing than rivals.
Then the results for each subject, ENGLISH, MATHS and SCIENCE are reported, again with comparison bars - the best being 100%.
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Unlike a typical shopping comparison site--which gets its content from merchants-- FatLens has another approach: it uses technology to crawl and spider the Web to index e-tailers.
ShopDAQ is a really cool price comparison plug-in that works for most Web browser, which displays in real-time other retail sites where you could find the same product, cheaper!
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Instead of combating the in-store plague of smartphone-enabled comparison shoppers with mobile calls-to-action, the retailers we studied are currently ceding that ground to third-party apps and competitors.
Ministers are trying to make planning rules more nuclear-friendly, and hope that tighter carbon-emission limits will help nuclear energy shine by comparison with fossil-fuel plants.
Thankfully, the latest Incredible is remarkably more comfortable to hold -- especially in comparison to the first generation -- as the beveled edges now flow into gentle curves along the side that allow the phone to fit naturally in one's palm.
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In the aftermath of another world war, the city is turned into a fantastic high-tech slum that invites comparison with the science-fiction movie Blade Runner.
Viewing angles were actually pretty impressive -- at least in comparison to the other glasses-free 3D displays we've seen -- and tilting our head slightly didn't throw off the 3D effect too much.
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The Nationwide conducts a straightforward monthly year-on-year comparison, although this could be affected by short-term blips.
Craig Burbidge, a vice president at Hitachi Consulting, recently did a side-by-side comparison of Televerde and a rival for a 90-day stretch.
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