And when they do, it is difficult to make comparisons among facilities and physicians.
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It's just too early to make comparisons to other events or to draw conclusions.
To make comparisons in living standards across countries economists use specially-adjusted exchange rates.
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"It is a question of competitiveness, because people obviously make comparisons with other cities around Asia, in particular Singapore, " he says.
Since McCain, an Arizona senator, is not well-known to most Republicans, it is misleading to make comparisons between Bush and McCain on personal qualities.
Earl Attlee acknowledged Cornwall's economic difficulties but argued that it was difficult to make comparisons between ferry services there and the "rather more complicated" services in Scotland.
An executive at one leading bank, who declined to be named, said the RiskMetrics model's transparency enables him to replicate its methodology and make comparisons among clients.
Though it may not be wise to make comparisons to modern QE, this was a case where the market needed it, got it, and was genuinely improved as a result.
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Some people thought it inappropriate to make comparisons to the free speech debate relating to the cartoons as that centred around people's beliefs rather than an issue of historical fact.
In order to accurately make comparisons between basketball teams we standardized revenue and expense streams, since the methods of reporting to the Department of Education are often inconsistent from school to school.
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 comparisons we make when we think about the future are often not the comparisons we make when we get there.
Nor is there enough data about the economic impact of other diseases to make real comparisons.
This may have led people to make broader comparisons and to integrate more past results into their research.
It is difficult to make international comparisons as other countries do not have data on a full national scale.
The Network says the rules should allow consumers to make objective comparisons of fees and expenses for various plans.
Third, without a fully loaded cost mode for on-premise applications, it is impossible to make accurate comparisons with cloud infrastructure.
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The figures can easily be manipulated to show dumping, because it is so hard to make sensible comparisons across borders.
I've kept those 1996 schedules on my bookshelf to make historical comparisons.
They found that those with the highest tendency to make such comparisons had the lowest scores in the notional race against 500 others.
The convenience of online shopping and the ability to make price comparisons on the Internet has completely changed retail trends in the past decade.
The sample design still does not permit comparisons of smaller subsets, such as districts or schools, although some districts have given the tests on their own in order to make such comparisons.
Our graphics make broad comparisons between the number of cases for a specific cancer in a given year, and the number of deaths which resulted from the same cancer in the same year.
After all, the currently strong comparable-store growth rates generally make for tougher comparisons later.
The completeness of this genome means we can make almost direct comparisons between the Denisovians and living humans.
Although this was explained in the article, you went on to make statements and comparisons that clearly did not take it into account.
This is the only way in which investors will be able to make the appropriate comparisons between companies, and allow companies to better communicate compensation results.
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Those comparisons make the hypothetical global index look spectacular!
Of interest though is that people in poorer countries who make downward social comparisons (comparing oneself to those who have even less vs. those who have more) are more satisfied with their lives than individuals making upward social comparisons.
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The committee's answer is that its job is not to make cross-country comparisons, which can often be invidious, but to reflect changing trends within individual countries.
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