"This is a striking change," Professor Prasad said.
What's more striking is Professor Offner's relentlessly dim view of Truman as a man.
The current parallels are striking, said Professor Lee, who teaches history at the University of Minnesota.
"The striking problem," Professor Gross said, "is that we have generated a procedure that is way too expensive if actually employed".
"It's so striking, the similarity," said Professor Bodie, a Boston University professor of finance and economics who has written of the lessons of the S.&L.
"This is not a striking surprise," Bruce Greenwald, a professor of finance and economics at Columbia Business School said of Time Warner's news.
Hair and shirttail running amok, Mr. Ratner has the bookish and unassuming style of an absent-minded professor, a striking contrast to the sharp elbows and blustery personality of developers like Donald J. Trump.
"Striking," said Alfred Blumstein, a professor and a criminologist at the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University, because it came "at a time when everyone anticipated it could be going up because of the recession".
"I don't know the last time there was a study in our field that had such striking results," says Stuart Bunderson, a professor of organizational behavior at Washington University.
Writing for the Guardian's Comment is Free last week, Birkbeck professor Costas Douzinas found "striking parallels" between the protesters there, for whom "no issue is beyond proposal and disputation", and the Athenian agora, birthplace of western democracy.
