Bespoke adds that if you want to make a comparison between now and any other year, it should be 1995.

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"It's hard to make a comparison between Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima because the radioactive release is different and so is the population, " said John Large, a UK-based independent nuclear engineer.

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Without the award letter, families may not be able to make a real cost comparison between similarly situated schools.

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The doctor plans to try the patch with at least 50 patients this fall, and hopes to make a more thorough comparison between it and pill.

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Within the union, the Treasury paper basically says the current set-up for Scotland makes sense, for the same reasons that a currency union between Austria and Germany makes sense - though I should say they never make the comparison.

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"As in a medical trial, you want to have customers randomly assigned between the two contract types to make an objective comparison, " he explains.

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