Word: equal
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...generate electricity or heat a factory in Tulsa. This in turn has made available an estimated 1 trillion additional cubic feet of the fuel for sale in states such as Ohio, Indiana, and New Jersey, where it is needed most. One trillion cubic feet is roughly equal to 5% of the nation's annual gas consumption, and is more than enough to heat three-quarters of all U.S. homes for one month...
Harvard's contracts funded by the Iranian government equal a total of $1 million, including consulting fees for a television network and the creation of the "New Community" to be located outside Tehran...
...same sense that Harvard has. This is not surprising. Neither have Smith or Wellesley. Although some maverick women graduating from these institutions have become leaders, they have been far outnumbered by their classmates who became educated homemakers. With the general trend in the '70s shifting to more equal access to power, money and prestige for women, their access to education has widened considerably; hence the move toward equal access at Harvard, and the move to accept women at other previously all-male Ivy League schools...
...some solidarity, Radcliffe could give pompous old Harvard what it needs--a good pinch in the ass. And 50 years and a few more million dollars from now, perhaps it can begin to assume what all women in this University would so dearly love to see--a partnership on equal terms...
...without waiting until what was once considered a decent interval has elapsed. "It has to do with people's fascination with public figures," reasons William McCutchen, producer of ABC's Eisenhower TV-movie. "Despite all the tremendously creative ideas that come out of Hollywood, none of them equal what happens in real life. Some of these films can be sensational. There's no doubt about it." Beatty adds: "There are lives that are stranger than fiction...