The weaker dollar is making fancy foreign wines pricier and domestic wines more attractive in comparison.
"That's a big, horrible situation right there, and it's making the United States look attractive by comparison," Mr. Pavilonis said.
So the prospect of getting his hands on a struggling ITV in need of creative leadership must have looked mighty attractive by comparison.
It's true that more yuan would result in lower domestic interest rates, which would make foreign assets more attractive by comparison.
"It is being sought out by investors not as a safe haven necessarily, but it is attractive in comparison to other assets".
Bamford, a deceptively ballsy pipsqueak stand-up from Minnesota, plays every part herself, and the show is a mini-masterpiece of characterisation, as Maria's hometown life begins to make dying onstage look attractive by comparison.
The Portuguese turmoil may have inflamed eurozone crisis fears, but it has also made other euro area debt look more attractive in comparison, argued Nick Stamenkovic, bond strategist at RIA Capital Markets.
But the Al Gore who has emerged in recent weeks has also shown real determination and energy, and a sense of engagement that his boosters find attractive in comparison with Mr. Bradley's remoteness.
And I say this as a fellow-hater who agrees entirely with Franzen about the odiousness of those Apple commercials featuring Justin Long ("a personified Mac … of such insufferable smugness that he made the miseries of Windows attractive by comparison").
While Mr. Rogers said that TiVo was not looking to challenge the dominance of Nielsen Media Research, TiVo's viewership and demographic information is attractive in comparison, especially since TiVo offers a sample of 20,000 subscribers versus the 3,000 DVR homes that Nielsen tracks.
