There is also the understandable comparison with Mr. Palmisano's predecessor, Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
To try to make sense of what is going on around us, it is understandable to draw comparisons.
It becomes the task of the interested user, then, to try to assemble disparate distributed tests, potentially with numerous different parameter settings – some revealed, some not – into a readily understandable form of comparison.
The comparisons are understandable, and 2004 was rightly seen as a blueprint for the unfancied teams at future international tournaments – the "ugly ducklings", as Fernando Santos would put it.
On the day he won his 91st cap to draw level with Diego Maradona, the last Argentina No 10 to reach this stage of a World Cup, comparisons were understandable.
While this comparison may be understandable, it ignores two important points.
This is understandable; it won't bear comparison with its magnetic neighbours, and moreover, it lies awkwardly abaft the channel, as if the first intention was to be a stopper of it.
Although the AWP is not representative of the cost that most purchasers or users pay for a drug, it was selected as the reference cost to provide a common, understandable baseline from which a comparison can be made for a given circumstance.
So it would be understandable if the Mariners dismissed the comparison because though they will undoubtedly not win 116 games again, they hope to snatch a World Series championship this time.
At Time 1 perhaps this is understandable as self-evaluation was based on students' comparisons with other students in the year group and at Time 1 they would have had no basis for these comparisons.
