Word: tantamount
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...highlight just what’s missing from the daily grind of undergraduate dining: joy. These people are unabashedly, deliriously, downright nerdily in love with food and wine. Just listen to Steve Edmunds talk about grapes. For this man, a visit to the vineyard is apparently tantamount to spiritual pilgrimage...
...stem-cell research, whether those cells come from cloning or from conventional in-vitro fertilization, is far from over, at least in the U.S. Right-to-life and religious groups, including the Roman Catholic Church, believe that human life begins at conception and thus that harvesting stem cells is tantamount to murder. With views like that on one side and high-profile advocates like Christopher Reeve and Michael J. Fox touting the benefits of therapeutic cloning on the other, the Bush Administration has tried to split the difference. In August 2001 the President declared that the U.S. government would fund...
...road to therapeutic cloning in the U.S. is a bumpy one. The Bush administration’s 2001 decision to restrict federal funding for projects working with a small batch of preexisting stem cells elicited cheers from those who feel that destroying embryos for the sake of research is tantamount to murder...
BCRA’s opponents had claimed that banning soft money and restricting advertising was tantamount to limiting the right to free speech of corporations, unions and special interest groups. In rejecting this argument, the Supreme Court declared, in effect, that the importance of protecting of these means of speech was outweighed by the need to prevent the appearance of corruption in politics. The Court was right to make the reduction of apparent corruption a primary concern. In a country where the more monied candidates win 90 percent of the elections, the influence of wealthy donors cannot be denied...
...MEANWHILE IN AUSTRIA ... Hell's Bells Playing Christmas carols in shops during the festive season is tantamount to "psychological terror" for store workers, according to a study by an Austrian trade union. By the time the big day arrives, the study says, hours of listening to piped carols such as Jingle Bells and Silent Night will have made many store workers aggressive and confrontational. The union wants shops to limit the number of hours per day the music is played, and restrict it to areas where Christmas gifts are being sold...