Word: tantamount
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...Mount Brushmore of Presidents--Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton--with magnificent hair. What we need is a tonsorial memorial to those giants--Ike, Winston Churchill, Mohandas Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion--of the World War II era, that one brief and very shining moment in history when baldness was tantamount to greatness...
...failure—in sports at least—boiling down to mere milliseconds, the incentives are all in place for PED’s to creep in. The way I see it, to be a professional athlete and not use PED’s right now would be tantamount to not striving—the epitome of what America detests...
...team.” Considering the depth of the Crimson attack, which features Akpan (11 goals, seven assists) and junior Mike Fucito (Eight goals, five assists), Nyamekye’s attributes are maximized best at the backline. Even so, Kwaku’s contributions at forward have been tantamount to the production of the team’s other strikers, making him an integral part of the Crimson offense. He will likely be called on more and more as the season progresses. Boasting a shooting percentage of .250—tied for second on the team with freshman Alex Chi?...
...Dick Cheney argued that techniques like simulated drowning didn't amount to torture. And last August, after the New Yorker reported the latest in a string of private memos sent to the U.S. government by the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) asserting that U.S. interrogation techniques were "tantamount to torture", President Bush said curtly, "We don't torture...
...that the fact that most students apply to multiple schools—the average Harvard pre-med student applies to 18—and it becomes immediately clear that the whole process is tantamount to highway robbery...