Word: tantamount
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...TIME: Some see rewriting the constitution as being tantamount to a declaration OF independence. Chen: I think those who interpret [constitutional reform] that way are making a grave mistake. The Beijing authorities distort our process of democratization into an intention to move toward Taiwan independence. The constitutional-reform project follows the line of our democratic reform. For more than four years, I have wanted to improve and normalize cross-strait relations, and to maintain peace in the Taiwan Strait. I am a maker of history. I have two historic missions. First, I want to hand over to the 23 million...
...torn down for community benefit.” Town-gown relations must be a game of give-and-take; such a hard-line stance is horribly unproductive. Just as it would be wholly inappropriate for Harvard development to truck on unfettered, it is absurd to advocate what is tantamount to a freeze on University expansion...
...torn down for community benefit.” Town-gown relations must be a game of give-and-take; such a hard-line stance is horribly unproductive. Just as it would be wholly inappropriate for Harvard development to truck on unfettered, it is absurd to advocate what is tantamount to a freeze on University expansion...
...callous way the Republican Party exploited the city of New York as an emotional backdrop for political gain that disturbed me. It wasn’t so much Sen. Zell Miller’s angry proclamation that to dissent from President Bush in this time of war is tantamount to treason that bothered me. It wasn’t even the smilingly dishonest way Bush rewrote his past three years to relate a satisfying portrait of resolute strength and triumph that was upsetting. It was that the Republicans were so damn good...
...sold on Sundays were enforced, Jewish and Muslim Americans could not conduct business on two days of the week: the Sabbath that their religion observed and Sunday. With the demise of blue laws almost everywhere, at least the playing field is more level. The enforcement of blue laws was tantamount to establishing a state religion. I am thankful that today they have become just a memory for most people. LAYNI S. ROTHBORT Millburn...