Word: tantamount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talk with one's hands is a sign of poor breeding. For Arabs of all social levels, however, gestures are an indispensable part of any conversation. "To tie an Arab's hands while he is speaking," writes Robert A. Barakat in the Journal of Popular Culture, "is tantamount to tying his tongue." To prove his point...
...Department's opponents want to "depoliticize" it and restructure it so that Afro's academic quality and rigor are equal to the other departments. While denying that his department is inferior, Guinier contends that to impose the standards of other concentrations on Afro would be tantamount to denying in policy differences which exist in fact...
...leading professor of constitutional law, Yale's Alexander M. Bickel, considered the proposition so dicey that he recommended that the committee seek legislation giving the courts jurisdiction in the case. Ervin rejected this course, however, because it would be time-consuming and, as one committee staffer put it, "tantamount to an impeachment proceeding against the President...
...their creation and decide whether it is worth keeping. However, this infanticide, an example of euthenasia, is at present deemed criminal homicide, despite the motive of mercy. Most legal experts dispel claims that passivity is not as culpable as a positive act of murder. They contend inaction is tantamount to action when there is a duty to act, and most moralists would agree...
SUNDAY: Masterpiece Theater. Part 2 of BBC production of Aldous Huxley's social satire "Point Counter Point" features Lucy Tantamount's seduction of Walter Bidlake. CH. 2. 9 p.m. Color...