Word: tantamount
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...offense, while clicking for five goals against a porous MIT defense, looked disorganized. This is no doubt because the starters lack the time and experience playing with each other and a knowledge of each other's moves that is tantamount to offensive precision. As coach Brace Munro remarked earlier in the week. "With four strangers on the line, it takes time." He hopes however, to begin implementing some offensive plays today, and hopefully the offense will begin to play more effectively...
Most White House staffers have been given extra chores for the campaign, though they are careful not to be seen doing them. To get too much publicity is tantamount to disloyalty. Speechwriter Raymond Price Jr. has enlarged his staff, while Pat Buchanan and William Safire have left Price's operation to write directly for the President. Herb Klein continues to move quietly among the media explaining the President's policies. Nixon seeks advice from a variety of ideological sources. On the one hand, he listens to Deep-Dyed Conservative Buchanan. On the other, he sends liberal-leaning Leonard...
...mission of United Nations Mediator Gunnar Jarring, which is supposed to get under way again this month. But Israel's response to the Soviet withdrawal has been to stand pat, publicly calling for direct negotiations in full knowledge that Egypt would refuse; Cairo considers direct talks tantamount to Israel's dictating the terms of peace...
Leading the Nixon administration attack against the Democratic presidential nomination front-runner on the eve of the Miami Beach convention, Laird again characterized McGovern's program as "tantamount to a white flag of surrender...
...majority of the editorial board and Messrs. Baker, Levenson and Swanson cannot have their cake and eat it too. They must face the fact that formulating the nature of intellectual freedom in the manner they do is tantamount to denying intellectual freedom. Either the intellect is free from extrinsic limitations or it is not. To state, as Messrs. Baker, Levenson and Swanson do, that "political circumstances are not to be ignored...it is political considerations that must decide the terms of any debate," is simply to deprive the intellect of an intrinsic freedom...