Notre Dame's defense has allowed opponents to gain 20 or more yards on 21 plays this season, a number equal to the number of comparable gains given up during the 1988 championship season.

Larger log periodics provide wider frequency coverage with comparable gain to rhombics.

With fewer resources, it has made comparable social gains and done so without enduring a one-party tyranny under a dictator for life.

The students who received both messages registered comparable gains.

After the 250-point run-up in the Dow since its low in October and comparable gains in bonds, investors are taking a wait-and-see attitude.

(Only under a flat-rate tax system would a percentage gain on gross income translate into a comparable inflation-offsetting gain at the after-tax level.)

Results for 1988's fourth quarter included after-tax gains of $1.5 million from investment transactions; there was no comparable gain in the fourth quarter of 1989.

This week's promise of help responds to no comparable political gain.

"I know of no comparable gains in such a short time in any public university system in the United States."

A localized magnetic field exerts a force on the plasma, effectively increasing the pressure without a comparable gain in density.