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There are a lot of countries flying in just to watch that meet. It'll be a first big step to it. You're going to put athletes together from different countries. Then you're going to be able to compare differently designed routines. Then you're going to see judges from different countries sit down together and compare.

Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.

We have hundreds of pieces of new music being composed every year. How many will last? This has always been true. How many of Brahms' pieces lasted? And what of Brahms' contemporaries, the ones whose work hasn't survived? It is unfair to compare today's music to what has endured, which is only the greatest music. The point is to listen, to keep listening.

There are very few parks that compare to a project like this. Imagine a 33-mile park that connects shopping districts, subdivisions and business districts.

Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

The primary reason for the list is to supply prospective students with information to help them decide where they want to go to school, to provide one tool. The secondary reason is for schools to compare themselves to each other.

When you compare this year and last year, it's like a 180-degree turnaround this year. It's completely different. When you go from a dry year to another dry year, it's not as noticeable.

When you compare this team to the last two years, we're mentally stronger. We don't have the physical strength like we did the last two years, but this is the most mentally seasoned team I've been on. We know how to perform in pressure situations. We know how to come back.

When you compare the sentence for Capt. Schweitzer, who was the one who actually destroyed the tape, with the sentence Capt. Ashby received, it's hard to understand the disparity.

When you compare that to the industry multiple of 13.5, these stocks look a little overpriced but they are in good shape.

When you compare our fixed-income business with some of our competitors, there are some gaps. We do see opportunities to invest into people, in some instances into risk.

When you compare our endowment to the benchmarks set by the Council on Postsecondary Education, we are low.

When you compare him with his predecessor, who took the Vatican by storm and the world by storm, this is a much more low-key papacy to date.

When you compare 1.3 for a levee safety factor with another safety factor that may be used in a different type structure, you don't always have an apples-to-apples comparison.

We've never had any well-described Native American corn to compare to the archaeological record.

Selling public lands can help reduce the drain on the treasury and give us benchmarks to compare private with public management.

She's Shaq. That's who people will compare her to ? the Shaquille O'Neal type.

Some crew chief has to be the best. In Top Fuel it's obviously Alan Johnson. I compare it to chess. We all basically have the same pieces and play on the same board, but some guys are just better than others. I can't give you an answer why and I bet Alan can't either. It's just the way it is. He's very expensive, but worth every penny.

Since the price of gas is on everyone's mind, let's compare how the price of gas and the prize money for he UAW-GM have changed since the first race in 1960,

Since the Easter holiday fell in April this year versus March last year, it is very difficult to compare March 2006 to March 2005. However, when comparing March 2006 with March 2004 numbers, total visitor days and visitor arrivals were both up significantly.

Maya just has a lot of weapons. She's not a one- or two-dimensional player. I'd compare her right to (Tennessee star) Candace Parker in the sense that she can post up strong and she can move with the ball and she can play anywhere from point guard to center.

Of course the Premier League is the most difficult league in the world because it's so even. I think you can't really compare other leagues with the Premier League. In the Premier League, every team can beat every team, and in football, that's something where you can have surprises.

Obviously, you can?t discount how much (Diana) meant because nobody?s ever meant more to any team than Diana has meant to this group of kids. So if you want to compare them to Diana, they fall short, but so does everybody else.

Music is timeless. There's just a novelty to television that you can't compare to music. To try and rely on your television clout in the music industry is not going to take you very far.

Money's just getting tight and something had to go. And insurance is one of the easiest things when you compare it to electricity and phone and mortgage.

Next-generation soft-switch technology is in high demand as communications service providers develop and deploy IP networks. The Technology Assurance Labs Shoot Out on the Telecom NEXT exhibit floor will be a great place for service providers to compare the latest soft-switch products from some of the world's most innovative technology companies.

Obviously, this is theory and easier said than done. Tracking every nickel is a big process and a lot of people don't do it. You can make the best budget, but if you don't track it, what good does it do? In my house, every month, we compare the actual to the budget. It's not fun. My wife hates me for it. But you have to track what you're spending.

Obviously, it's a much larger project, and it would be unfair to compare it to the timetables of other universities.

On the ice, I don't even have to look for Paul Daley, I can just feel where he is. He doesn't even need a number out there. He's a great skilled player, but nobody can compare to him in the locker room. If not for him, I don't know if we even get as far as we did.

I would say check out the results from the surveys on Medicare.gov. it has a list you can compare in all states that have homes receiving Medicare and Medicaid.

I would compare him to Carter Woodson and W.E.B. Du Bois,

If they compare you with a good player, that means that you have something in your game.

If they want to compare how things are going in Washington versus how things are going in Virginia, I'll take that comparison every day of the week,

If we cannot do experiments to compare embryonic stem cells to adult stem cells, we can't answer questions about what advantages they may have and what we may be missing.

I didn't really have anything else to compare Tech to. I gathered all the information I could to make a smart decision.

I don't know what to compare that to. It's for sure each team has something in mind about the other. It's an honor and a pleasure to play a game against them.

I don't know that you can compare it to anything else a person in racing could have. I think whenever you have a horse like this you always want to win the next race, but I don't know that you can duplicate the first Saturday in May getting in the gate with 19 other horses and winning. There is no other race in that category.

I don't know that I can compare myself to anyone. The film is different, and therefore the character is different. This is just one more version that's based on everybody else's, with just a few tweaks that I bring.

I don't know who you compare him to. I think that makes people uncomfortable.

I'd compare it to a bowl game in college football. We're giving out close to $1 million in prizes including trophies, jackets, cash prizes and a car.

I couldn't imagine Darwin hoping for a stronger confirmation of his ideas than what we see when we compare the human and chimp genomes.

I'd be happy if someone said he could come back by May 1. The trouble is, there is nothing in baseball to compare this injury to.

I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings can't fully comprehend it, then obviously it makes sense to put all the facts together - to compare disciplines and try to advance the sum of knowledge by exploration and examination.

Based on what he's accomplished and on his statistics, if you compare what he's done to what some of the other top quarterbacks have done, he certainly doesn't come anywhere near them in terms of compensation.

Because tribes do not file campaign finance reports, it is not possible to compare or double-check the amounts received by candidates and reported on the candidates' campaign finance reports.

Because they can offer around-the-clock monitoring of network performance, improved application performance, and predictable service levels, managed service providers are in a unique position to expand their business in an effort to address the growth of this market. The most significant driver may well be the growth in the number of business locations or endpoints that connect to each other across a WAN. When you compare the growth of establishments to the growth of managed network connections, the increasing need for managed services is unmistakable.

I have been here for three years and if I compare things from the first year I met (Webb) to this year, she has grown and matured so much as an individual.

I hate to compare this team with last year's, but it's a one-and-done tournament. We're a very unselfish team, and that's really helped us.

If I play well and win a lot of games, everybody will compare me and Ben. If I play poorly, I'll be a rookie quarterback playing poorly and there won't be any comparisons.

I feel more of a kindred bond with the men people compare me to than the women. If someone says Bon Scott or Guns N' Roses, I'll take that any day over Peaches.

I can't even compare walking into that locker room today after this game with the way it was last time, ... We were 1-3 (after the 2003 game). I'm proud of these players today. We got down 7-0, but they didn't bat an eye.

Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people for the better. But in the end, nothing can quite compare with winning your first Olympic gold medal.

For such a wealthy country, and one where there is such innovation, the tertiary enrolment rate in 2003 was 48.7 per cent. Compare that with Finland, which was 87.5 per cent. This is definitely something that should be addressed.

From a customer's standpoint, they should compare prices, and if it's a higher price, it may be green power.

I don't think we look to top last year. We look to go out and be the best that this team can be, whatever that is. ... But we're not going to try to compare last year with whatever we do this year.

I don't try to compare us to anybody else. We're trying to make Auburn as good as it can be. We aspire to do our own thing.

I don't try to compare myself with anybody. I don't get caught up in that because then you might take things for granted. I just try to be the best, go give it my best shot, and that's all the manager asks from me every day.

I don't think it's so great they're coming out a week between each other or whatever. It's a disaster, ... The point is, those guys do great work. That's why it's unfortunate they're coming out at the same time. Filmmakers won't compare them, but everybody else will.

I don't think it's kosher to compare with the fourth quarter of last year because that was an entirely different price environment.

I don't think our government really has much of a policy about air travel. I would compare the policies of United Arab Emirates, which has done a terrific job recognizing the value of transportation, of travel.

He was boring. But if you compare him to other times, he was a little bit better than in the past, and Berlusconi was the same.

I always like balance. If I'm playing rock music all the time, chances are I'll start craving some lighter, poppier stuff, both to listen to and to play. I compare music to massage. If someone's been working on your back for a long time, you really want them to move down to your legs or something.

He doesn't compare me to Ray, but he uses him to make me hungry. He'll talk about how Ray stays in the film room and says, 'If you want to be that, that's what you've got to do.' Maybe that explains his style.

We can empathize with our own law enforcement brothers. I don't think we could ever compare our tragedy to their catastrophe.

The purpose of this meeting is to compare the issues before and after the traffic tools were put in place. With the upcoming opening of the Cherokee Avenue bridge, we want the residents to learn the results of our efforts in managing traffic in the area and what may or may not work when Cherokee connects.

We took it one game at a time, one possession at a time, one minute at a time. I compare it to chopping down a tree. You work at it and work at it and, eventually, it falls.

We studied many different versions of classic fairy tales from different cultures around the world. We took stories like Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood and studied at least five versions of each so the students could compare and contrast them.

To compare it, it would be like one of the local football teams, Centennial or Meridian, beating the No. 1 ranked team in the Northwest. It's huge,

What we were able to do is compare the binding site of both the viral RNA and the cells' cap binding protein on a factor that is common to both mechanisms in eIF3. The binding cap is one of the complexes required by the cell, but not required by the virus. For translations, this cup binding protein has to interact with the eIF3.

What we went through is minute if you compare it to what people in New Orleans went through, especially close to where the levees broke. They lost everything. I'm proud of everybody. I'm glad I was part of this team. This will be a memory for a lifetime.

Having two foundries actually gave us products back quicker than if we had gone with one. We were able to compare very precisely the results we got off of them and this improved the yields at both foundries.

Having a tool to see what cars are greener and to be able to compare them is important, especially since this information is not readily available.

The rankings allow people to easily compare the kinds of potential employees they might encounter.

There aren't numbers I can compare there, just relationships. The committee felt Michelle probably had a better chance of winning a medal. The mission of the international committee is to win medals.

We looked at a 20-day snapshot in time to compare the margins between how much retailers paid for the gas and how much they charged customers for the gas, ... That margin was the focal point of our investigation.

We look at the adult population and see how it changes from year to year. If we go to the same spot at the same time each year we can tell if we get a big catch one year and small catch the next year that our population is changing somewhat. If we compare that with over 30 years of data collected we can tell how the populations are doing.

Huge difference. You can't even compare it. He took over a program that he knew going in was going to take some time.

How would you compare your style to Randy Johnson's?

Hundreds of people worked on it -- taking customer feedback. We want people to try it and compare it with the choices they have.

I absolutely hate it. I just hate it. I don't want to hear any comparisons between me and him. Enough is enough. He had a brilliant career, obviously, one of the greatest careers ever, if not the greatest, and I'm here playing with my team and we're trying to do great things. Just let the past be the past. Just embrace what I'm doing. Stop trying to compare it to what he did. Just enjoy what's going on now.

I actually tried to compare it to any other situation where leadership is lost. At the beginning, there's a sense of shock, and a lack of purpose. We haven't talked about the outside things, all we've talked about is Christopher all week. Yesterday and (Thursday) we've had good practices, and I think we're really focused, considering everything.

Greenwood for a long time has wanted to compare itself to Carmel. But I gotta say that Greenwood has fallen behind. I would very much like to see Greenwood adopt the kind of image that Carmel has.

Harvard has really been an excellent program, something to really compare yourselves to. And for us to be able to beat them, as we did, at home...it's a great signal to all that's in front of us.

I would think it would end in my favor. I just hope that people will look at those fights and then compare them to my fights and make up their mind about whether they still underestimate or doubt me.

(Kennedy) wants to look at what we're doing here with our selection process and what we've done with the contract to compare it to what their proposed new guidelines are going to be,

Kate Moss has had such a phenomenal career and I wouldn't even like to compare myself to her. It's amazing that people are going to put my name close to hers.

It can't compare to Harmon. The lighting is so much better, the footing is better and the surface is better. We are looking forward to getting out there for those reasons and having a home-field advantage for the first time.

I think it's fair to compare Tampa to New York or Los Angeles, not Las Vegas. I think Tampa is a better fight town than L.A. In fact, I know it is,

I think it's extremely important for U.S. investors to get this idea. It's slowly becoming more mainstream. As the world has become more global, it's more important to get best-in-class, and the only way you'll do that is to compare companies globally.

I think it?s a very welcome rating in terms of Maine and how we compare nationally.

I think the game was out of hand before that (home run). It doesn't (mean a great deal) because I don't have anything to compare it to. I'm not a baseball historian. I don't go home and add it up. I'll add it all up after I retire.

I think the appeal of the LPGA has broadened. We compare it to tennis when the Williams sisters brought a lot of attention to their sport.

It is pretty simple. There are just a few changes. They're all listed right here on the front. You can go through there in five minutes and read everyone of them, and compare them.

It is pretty clear that people are not enormously enamored by Camilla. People in the future will say that when you compare her style with Diana's, it is very different.

I thought that would be a normal safety measure that would be installed. Whatever they cost, you have to compare that to the cost of a life. If we could have prevented the accident a few weeks ago, it would have been money well spent.

I think what's driving it is Helena is still recognized as a value in the western Montana markets. When you compare Helena to Kalispell or Missoula or Bozeman or any other nice place to live in Montana, it's relatively speaking still a good buy, which says the average could continue to go up for the next three or four years.

I think as an actor... I don't like to compare a character to anybody else, just because I respect other people's work, and I want that character to have his own identity.

It is not a gimmick. I wouldn't compare it to a wishbone, I'd say it is more like the fun and gun because they spread you out and they are going to shoot the 3-pointer 25 times.

I think sometimes the voters try to compare us with the starting pitchers. We can't compete with their statistics, their innings or their strikeouts. I think if you compare us against each other, I think you'll see we're all pretty equal.