From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: "while" vs. "compared with" Article-I.D.: utah-gr.681 Posted: Sat Jan 15 13:14:22 1983 Received: Mon Jan 17 03:56:38 1983 References: ihuxr.284 How about "this years production was 5, whereas last year, we produced a whopping total of 2.7"? =Spencer