Word: tantamount
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...total of around $100 million. For the Democrats who can raise more money than would be allowed by the constraints of public financing, choosing to stay within its tight limits—delaying significant spending from the end of the primaries until after the national convention—is tantamount to giving their opponent a four-month head start. As written, public finance laws favor the incumbent more than they favor the ideals of equal expression. So while public financing is good in theory, neither Kerry nor Dean can be blamed for choosing to forgo public funds...
...computer services team wrote to Slater and explained that they’d blocked access to the materials. Ordinarily, that would be the end of it. If a student is twice accused of such a violation, Harvard has said it will cut off network access—a punishment tantamount to expulsion for some undergraduates...
...huge news. The 517-lb. Hawaiian, born Chad Rowan, brought glitter and cosmopolitanism to the ancient and solemn Japanese sport. Now Akebono, 34, is stunning the sumo world again with the announcement that he'll join Japan's brutal K-1 kickboxing league--a career move tantamount to Mikhail Baryshnikov's joining WWE SmackDown. "My zeal for combative sports never cooled down," Akebono says. Plus, he wants shapelier calves...
...Limbaugh slurs black ability by implying that affirmative action is the reason why McNabb is quarterback, which is also tantamount to smearing affirmative action itself,” Early said...
...North Korea's radical juche philosophy and that Song (as Kim Chul Su) attended the funeral of former leader Kim Il Sung in 1994. South Korea's opposition Grand National Party says the government can't let Song go unpunished. Fumes GNP lawmaker Chung Hyung Kun: "That would be tantamount to allowing communism in South Korea...