Word: tantamount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Help is forthcoming from the outside. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week refused to report the confirmation of Howard P. Mace, 55, as U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone, which is tantamount to defeat of his nomination. As director of personnel for four years, Mace was the source of much of the department's interior turbulence. He was known behind his back as the "executioner," the man primarily responsible for the selecting-out process. Officers also noted that under his aegis men with high diplomatic potential were often bypassed for plush jobs in favor of men little experienced...
...only point on which Mao and Chiang agree. They argue of course over which government is the legitimate representative. But any proposal which calls for a divided China is unacceptable. In effect, advocacy of any sort of two China, one China and one Taiwan, or dual representation policies is tantamount to opposition of the seating of the People's Republic. In addition, such proposals require the extraordinary procedures of annexing Taiwan from China and declaring the island to be a separate nation...
Harvard voted against the first two and abstained on the third. In a proxy battle, abstention is tantamount to a vote for management...
...Tantamount to Heresy. By the time a chill rain ended the fighting on the fourth day, I.R.A. leaders were claiming that their cause had been strengthened. Their strategy is to force Faulkner into a spiral of violence leading to suspension of the Ulster government and a return to direct rule by London for the first time in 50 years; finally, they hope, it would lead to a political settlement between London and Dublin...
...year against Eire's own I.R.A. activists. He also sent his External Affairs Minister, Dr. Patrick Hillery, to London to seek joint talks with London and Ulster over the crisis. Ulster's Protestant politicians angrily shouted "interference!" To them the idea of a discussion with Dublin is tantamount to heresy...