Word: tantamount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrat and an inveterate Nixon critic. Mills decided nearly two years ago that Nixon would make telling points against the Democrats in the 1970 elections and the 1972 presidential campaign if the Democrats tried to block this striking new program for the poor, particularly since such blockage would be tantamount to approval of the present welfare structure. Mills pushed the bill through the House once, but it failed enactment because of the chaos in the Senate at last year's session end. This year Mills put the bill on top of his priority list-hence the label...
...allow these people to speak, would have been tantamount to letting Charles Manson drum up support for more killings," he added...
Cunning Men. It took Dewey three ballots to regain the nomination in 1948 over Ohio's Robert Taft, Minnesota's Harold Stassen, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and California's Earl Warren-and the nomination was considered tantamount to election. The nation seemed weary of the frenetic days of New Deal innovation and the burdens of war and postwar readjustment. Harry Truman was a feeble contrast to the fallen F.D.R., and the Democratic Party was split (Strom Thurmond had deserted to run as a right-wing candidate, Henry Wallace as a left-wing challenger). Voters yearned...
...Ankara as college and high school students went on a rampage, and Demirel reluctantly considered imposing martial law. The reason he hesitated was that his Justice Party has a narrow margin in Parliament (225 to 220), and its rejection of a proposal to proclaim martial law would be tantamount to a vote of no confidence. At week's end the fate of the airmen was still unknown...
...Rights and Responsibilities, was a misnomer. The Committee was not concerned with anyone's rights or responsibilities. It was concerned with punishing students, not investigating student claims; it was roughly equivalent to a criminal court. A real committee of rights and responsibilities, of course, ought to have been tantamount to arbitration. Significantly, the CRR had the trappings and forms of arbitration, but its substance was always simple punishment...