Just compare this layout with what wireless net operators will pay to bring on 3G broadband services.
Increasingly, Europe's managers will compare themselves not just with their local rivals but with colleagues in the euro zone.
If we compare the base-rule value just calculated with the actual base growth rates experienced recently, we see that the base rule calls for a slightly more expansionary monetary policy than that of the past few months.
Our failure to anticipate that we will compare ourselves with those around us is just one example of this fact.
But the more important reason why this is a problem is that when the person sits down to drink the wine he purchased, he'll compare it with the Diet Pepsi he was just sipping, with the wine he drank last Saturday or with some other beverage he remembers.
With cloud computing, it takes just seconds to compare millions of faces.
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Compare that with United Parcel Service labor costs at just 53 percent and FedEx at 32 percent, and your hair will stand on end.
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Just look at the charts for gold and silver today, and compare it with FX charts for the U.S. dollar.
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To see the scale, compare a city like Miami (at one extreme, with just one district covering almost all the metropolitan area) and Boston (at the other, with 70 districts within a 30-minute commute of downtown): that big an increase in choice is associated with an improvement in attainment of 1.4 grades and an increase in young adult earnings of 15%.
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But compare it with Italy - which next year has to borrow 307bn just to repay maturing debt.
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"We have just started the commercial aspect of this product but the price is not that expensive when you compare it with the long term solution that it gives, " he adds.
In supporting this conclusion you may just as well compare the success of children brought up in relationships where the father drives a luxury saloon with those from relationships where the father drives an old wreck.
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Investors around the world have long used ratings not just as a guide to the risk of default, but as a way to compare the riskiness of one bond with the riskiness of another.
Just compare the high unemployment rates in Europe, where it is more difficult both to hire and to fire workers, with the low rate in the United States.
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