Word: tantamount
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...back to $38.45 last week. The surge of attacks is prompting hundreds of expats to leave, and those who remain behind are scared stiff. "Guys are growing beards and putting 'Allah is Great' bumper stickers on their cars," says a longtime American resident. "A suit and a tie is tantamount to wearing a bulls-eye." For the third time in six weeks, the State Department issued a warning "strongly urging" some 25,000 Americans to quit the country - and a U.S. official told Time that the advisory could remain in place for years. "Al-Qaeda tells [the U.S.] to leave...
...eyes of Pusey’s predecessor, James B. Conant ’14, pleading the Fifth was tantamount to an admission of guilt, and many universities had dismissed faculty members who remained silent under questioning...
...dispensing with the provocation and adopting a conciliatory tone. Though he still emphasized Taiwan's "national identity" in his speech, he dropped a controversial plan to write a new constitution that was to be endorsed by a referendum-a step Washington feared could be perceived by Beijing as tantamount to a declaration of independence, and which could push the two sides of the Taiwan Strait to the brink of war. Asked by a TIME reporter what he thought of Chen's address, Paal smiled and said: "I am happy with what I heard today...
...million Americans living in poverty are simply not driven or innovative enough to improve their plight. To these debaters, the very poor are most likely happy to lazily wait around for the government’s handouts—which, according to many of my misinformed opponents, are tantamount to stipends that allow for an incredibly comfortable life...
...acting director of undergraduate studies and served in that position for five years in the mid-1990s—calls “reverse-ethnocentricity—studying the world from where you stand.” In Western terms, NELC’s structure is tantamount to putting what we know now as Romance Languages, Classics, Comparative Literature, English, History and Literature, Germanic Languages and History of Art and Architecture all into one department. No university in the West would dream of doing this, yet for the “Near East” (an antiquated term in itself...