11.   But it also exposes them to bruising new international comparisons.

12.   But the biggest problem is how to translate the figures into dollars so as to make international comparisons.

13.   Conservatives like to point to international comparisons to demonstrate how poorly American students are doing.

14.   International comparisons of labor costs often provoke such a question.

15.   International comparisons are of little help, because reporting methods vary among countries, as do cultural and religious attitudes towards suicide.

16.   It also wants tighter definitions of what constitutes a wetland so that international comparisons can be made more easily.

17.   Its staff has been working for the last decade to develop ways to make reliable international comparisons.

18.   Japanese students often have some of the highest average test scores in international comparisons.

19.   Many countries that beat the pants off of us in international comparisons have much larger class sizes than we do.

20.   Researchers making international comparisons have reached similar conclusions.