Word: tantamount
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...President has always equated Kim's nuclear saber rattling with blackmail, and a face-to-face engagement would seem tantamount to caving in. But when Bush entered the Oval Office, North Korea had two nuclear warheads; now the CIA estimates that Pyongyang has enough plutonium to make as many as eight and is hard at work on the technology that would deliver them to American shores. North Korea is slowly but surely building its nuclear capability, making the world steadily less safe, and it's not clear what anyone can do about it without trying something entirely different...
...scene could have passed for a paid advertisement: a barista at a New York City coffee bar informed a customer that the café had run out of Splenda, the sugar substitute in the bright yellow packets. To the customer, it was tantamount to betrayal. "Are you very sure?" he asked, offering to settle for Equal or Sweet'n Low. But all that was left was sugar. The man shook his head (sugar!), pushed his cup back across the counter and demanded a refund...
...proposed OSC is an equal embodiment of futility. The UC (specifically, the CLC) has struggled in the past in providing airport shuttles during recess and cardboard boxes during move-out. To continue to leave services in the hands of a few inexperienced representatives with little business acumen is tantamount to reckless abandonment of student welfare. We continue to encourage the UC to look for ways to outsource these services to student groups designed to carry out such initiatives and subsidize them with grants as needed. Furthermore, even a cursory review of the OSC’s list of goals...
...cruel and disrespectful manner, it opens the door for men to do the same.” Even though the most fair-minded would concur that agreeing to dance at a party full of drunken, under-aged athletes is a risk probably not worth taking, this is hardly tantamount to giving license for the accuser to be raped. Lattimore also fails to recognize that when men and women call other women “sluts” or “hoes,” it is not due to the failure of women to unite, but the result...
...open study breaks are nondiscriminatory in the sense that anyone can attend. But granting money to a student organization that is inherently discriminatory (at least with respect to its bylaws) is to misuse funds that are meant to serve all Harvard students. Money is fungible: Funding any event is tantamount to a subsidy for the entire group.Then what separates the AACF from, for example, single-sex a cappella groups, at least one of which rejects all female members despite the lack of an explicit clause in its bylaws? We acknowledge that this is a fine line. But a group?...