1.   And, despite price cuts, PowerBooks remain expensive compared to other Macs.

2.   But its Chinese operations remain small compared with its financial, insurance and real estate projects in Hong Kong, Singapore and elsewhere in Asia.

3.   Deaths from derailments and head-on collisions between two trains remain low compared with train-vehicle accidents at highway crossings.

4.   It remains selective compared not only with public schools, which admit one and all, but with parochial schools elsewhere.

5.   Japanese interest rates remain low compared to rates in the United States, making assets denominated in the yen less attractive than those in the dollar.

6.   Japanese interest rates remain low compared to the U.S., making U.S. investments more attractive.

7.   The audiences for individual cable programs remain minuscule compared with even the lesser-rated efforts of broadcast networks, and budgets for cable shows generally are correspondingly lower.

8.   The incidence of other types of charges remained flat compared with the previous year.

9.   Per capita coffee consumption in Indonesia remained low compared to other countries, the USDA said.

10.   But the EU inflation rate in May remained stable compared with April, Eurostat said.