Compaq says the ads improperly quote Compaq's published list prices as actual prices, and that they unfairly compare the performance of the two companies' products.

The game has evolved into a far better form than it was in in 1996, and yet, fans do not seem to find it that attractive, with men unfairly comparing it to the above-the-rim action in the men's pro game.

Scott Himelstein, the chairman of the National Even Start Association, an advocacy group for the program, said in a telephone interview from San Diego that Mr. Bush was unfairly comparing "apples and oranges" because Even Start serves a more disadvantaged group than other government programs.

He conceded that he might not be giving the captain the benefit of the doubt and was possibly unfairly comparing him with Christopher Pike, the man he had succeeded as captain of the Enterprise and an exceptional, consummate officer in his own right.

The reviewers, he says, are "slaves to the code" and not "slaves to the branding, products, or experience" as he would prefer, and they unfairly compare the game to better-received titles, such as Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

But, he said, it unfairly compares students to one another and discourages students from taking courses that they think would jeopardize their class rank.

That's unlike the Yankees, who rushed Leiter to the major leagues at the age of 21 and unfairly compared him to left-handers Ron Guidry and Dave Righetti.

Upjohn officials agreed that some studies showed that people taking Halcion exhibited paranoia or other psychiatric symptoms, but added that these studies unfairly compared a high dose of Halcion to a normal dose of another sleeping pill.

Players sometimes griped early in the year that fans and the news media unfairly compared the 1999 Yankees to that standard, but by midsummer it became apparent that the Yankees themselves were trying to live up to their own impossible expectations.

And it wouldn't be true to the Apple-way if they didn't unfairly compare 3D performance to an unequally equipped PC.