1.   Baseball traditionalists hate the idea of dividing runs or changing the way a statistic is measured, claiming that distorts historical comparisons.

2.   A logical place to look for clues to equity values is in historical comparisons.

3.   But Sertich said that the company could not provide any more detailed historical comparisons nor what kind of company has middle-level managers who could afford Beverly Hills.

4.   Clinton, for his part, can take comfort from a historical comparison of a more recent nature.

5.   Commentators vainly sought historical comparisons, something that might help ease the mental pain.

6.   For Bush, another historical comparison is equally troubling.

7.   For the rest of the week, TV commentators vainly sought historical comparisons, something that might help ease the mental pain.

8.   Historical comparisons that showed the market to be way overvalued were irrelevant, announced the group, led by Abby Joseph Cohen of Goldman Sachs.

9.   It will be accompanied by a companion index that will facilitate historical comparisons.

10.   One of the fund-picking approaches that most profitably uses past performance data is remarkably simple, involving no complicated risk-adjustment or long-term historical comparisons.