From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!eisx!drv Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: while vs. compared with Article-I.D.: eisx.486 Posted: Sun Jan 16 11:55:02 1983 Received: Tue Jan 18 19:12:24 1983 Unless I missed it, the best choice for the comparison of last year's production to this year's is to use two simple sentences rather than the compound varieties that have been suggested (with "impressive" words that no one really uses like 'whereas', e.g., Last year's production was 13,000. This year's is 17,000. Keep it simple! Remember? Dennis Vogel