In the United States, by contrast, it was 5.7, with the Mexican rate roughly double that.

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By contrast, both 2011 and 2012 started with early, strong global growth, though it later faded in the summer.

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By contrast, in Boston, tech talent tends to stick with a start-up until it succeeds.

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The most qualified candidate, by contrast, may feel like he deserved the job, and decide to approach it with a more relaxed attitude.

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Mr Gration, by contrast, favours a wary but active engagement with Sudan's government in the hope that it will be more co-operative and less brutal in Darfur and the south.

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For the first time since then, the all-powerful African National Congress (ANC) was challenged by an opposition party able to point to its own perky record in local government and contrast it with the ANC's fairly dismal one.

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By contrast, Apple proved in the past that it could reap huge hardware profits by attacking a big market with a new product for which customers would pay a price premium.

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It also sports an "ultrafine" .0065-millimeter pitch along with a "high-contrast filter" that allows the projected image to be reflected by the screen while it absorbs incidental light from other sources.

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