To him, a more appropriate historical comparison is between Obama and Liberal Party politicians, including HH Asquith.
Begala drew historical comparison -- between Clinton now and then-Vice President George H.
If 1973-75 is the right historical comparison, we are close to capitulation now.
By any historical comparison, the economy was sure not only to bottom out soon, but to surge forward in a dramatic snap-back.
The nearest historical comparison we have is the savings-and-loan crisis of 1986--95.
For historical comparison, at least in my lifetime, I suppose the closest thing we've ever had to "Gangnam Style" was "Macarena" by Los del Rio.
The historical comparison that best fits our present-day crisis is 1974.
As a further historical comparison, one in four Americans did not have jobs during the Great Depression in the 1930s, so the unemployment rate then hit 25%.
Yet according to Gregory Rodriguez, of the Pepperdine Institute for Public Policy, the most appropriate historical comparison is not with the confrontational politics of the 1960s, which sprang out of the squashing of racial minorities.
And with a new collective bargaining agreement in place that should influence high-spending teams to think twice before incurring massive luxury tax bills, Mr. Stern presided over a final round of labor negotiations that may yield a greater degree of competitive balance to the sport that was previously lacking in historical comparison with other North American leagues.
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This would measure the total amount of debt that can only be paid back by tax revenue or selling government assets, and so would be a more apples-to-apples comparison with historical Treasury debt, govt debt in other countries, etc.
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We consider non-GAAP international revenues as a useful metric as it facilitates management's internal comparison to our historical performance.
Although several new drugs for fighting bacteria are in development, experts caution that we are decades behind in comparison with the historical rate at which we have discovered and developed new antibiotics.
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