Based on our review of the results of six international achievement surveys conducted from 1991 to 2001, we conclude that U.S. students have generally performed above average in comparisons with students in other industrialized nations.
In the inevitable comparisons with his predecessor, Benedict XVI, some will point to the new pontiff's credentials as a local bishop, rather than a Vatican insider.
Yeasayer's standout first single, "2080, " gained recognition early in 2007, and attracted comparisons with the similarly hyped work of TV on the Radio, Grizzly Bear, and Animal Collective.
The circumstances of Jackson's death have led to comparisons with Presley's in 1977, but in terms of coverage, the two can't compare.
Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, where it will inevitably provoke comparisons with the Bill of Rights.
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But Ford was careful to pick the member of the Prius family that is most vulnerable to being defeated in spec comparisons that the company wanted to make with C-Max.
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The show, whose period setting had invited comparisons with Mad Men, was produced in conjunction with Hugh Hefner's Playboy Enterprises.
The data was recorded for the first time in the Census 2011, so there are no comparisons with previous years.
"It is a question of competitiveness, because people obviously make comparisons with other cities around Asia, in particular Singapore, " he says.
Still, some content comparisons with Wikipedia are useful to keep in mind.
Her records in the early '70s received critical acclaim, drawing comparisons with such well-known contemporaries as Joni Mitchell, Carole King and Laura Nyro.
"Often some comparisons are made with David Beckham, and in his own right David brought a lot of exposure to the league, " he said.
Such is Frankel's dominance in his own sport that the comparisons tend to be made with athletes from outside of his own species, such as 0.49-furlong runner Usain Bolt, record-breaking swimmer Michael Phelps or the hitherto-peerless Mohammed Ali.
But Todt stressed he did not want comparisons with Schumacher to overshadow Raikkonen as he settles in.
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Her warbling feral pop vocals have already drawn comparisons with Gwen Stefani, who she often covers in her set, and the queen of theatrical pop Kate Bush.
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Mr. Workman drew comparisons to a mad scientist, working in a chaotic office strewn with papers and avoiding meetings.
Watching the financial media early in the day on Tuesday, I lost count of how many middle-aged money managers were scolding Zuckerberg in abstentia and in advance with hoodie jokes and the ever-present, unfavorable comparisons to the formative years of Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG).
As with many Apple products prices in Europe are usually higher than direct comparisons suggest.
But some academics have been looking back at the 1920s to make comparisons with the present day and they find similarities both in the nature of the economic problems and the adjustment efforts designed to alleviate them.
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The couple drew comparisons to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, with every move under scrutiny in the full glare of the spotlight.
They found that those with the highest tendency to make such comparisons had the lowest scores in the notional race against 500 others.
The outcome is a movie so desperate to provoke comparisons with the religious enmities of today that it somehow forgets the fire in its own belly.
These very different interpretations of the rhetoric of equality in the mid-19th century resonate with different readings of OWS. Are media comparisons of OWS to the Tea Party accurate?
Having said this, I think the declines will moderate slightly for several reasons: first, comparisons with the second half of 2011 are easier than they have been in the first half.
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Broughton's compensation is calculated according to a series of comparisons (applied in various ways to the different components of his compensation package) with other British multinationals and also with with similar fast-moving consumer goods companies and other FTSE-100 companies.
With all the comparisons that have been made between the current war in Afghanistan and America's war in Vietnam, there are some differences that seem to be creating a willingness by Obama to be more receptive to the critics, including Biden.
The polished stainless-steel sculptures that the American artist produced in the years just before he died, in 1965, may not seem revolutionary today, but at the time they drew comparisons with the radical agenda of Russian Constructivism and were seen as a significant break from his previous work.
Comparisons with other sites show that Homo erectus survived successive warm and cold periods in northern Asia.
Take economic opportunity comparisons with Texas for example, a state with one of the lowest tax burdens in the country, far fewer regulations and taxes on businesses, and which has consistently ranked among the top five in various surveys for business friendliness.
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