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Instead, he pursued reciprocal trade agreements with countries, especially in the Western Hemisphere, that had a comparative advantage in producing particular goods.

America’s real comparative advantage is its workers of all stripes—everywhere from factory floors to drilling rigs, corporate cubicles to garage startups—who devise new ways of doing business.

Sanford hopes to broaden the work to additional primate species, creating a comparative view of reasoning abilities across evolutionary branches.

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In the humanities division, the cutbacks mean the school is pausing Ph.D. admissions for a year in disciplines like comparative literature, Germanic studies and art history.

The U.A.E. and Saudi can boast some comparative advantage in the competition for data centers: cheap energy, deep capital pockets, and “stable” governments that don’t need to worry about environmental or community pushback.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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