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...industries to meet preset goals. Trying typically to have it both ways, the President repeatedly warned that any departure from free trade would damage the U.S. economy, which has become increasingly dependent on sales of American exports. Arriving in Washington on Friday, he denied that the Tokyo accords were tantamount to protectionism. "I don't think we're forcing anybody to buy something," Bush said. "I don't view that as managed trade...
Does Stone really believe that one reshuffling of Pentagon personnel is tantamount to declaring war on the military-industrial complex, or that Kennedy was the only President ever to juggle staff? It is only "beyond the looking glass" that a one-time decision to withdraw 1000 Americans, as Kennedy committed to shortly before his trip to Dallas, out-weighs a long-standing policy that led to the deployment of about 15,000 others. In the course of a three-year war, such a move means precious little, and could far more easily have been motivated by a desire, for instance...
...know one. Only a chronic rubber-check artist, after all, is likely to applaud the sweetheart deal Congress cut for itself with its own private bank. And only sophists are likely to go along with the argument that accepting bundles of money from political-action committees is not tantamount to taking bribes. Congress's refusal to consider real reform of its campaign-finance system makes sense only to other professional politicians, for many of whom retention of power is the paramount goal...
...University is financially strapped and cannot assist in funding the posts, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles said this week. Funding the posts would be tantamount to creating new faculty positions, something administrators in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have stated they will not do, given the $10 million FAS budget deficit...
Some people have found the latest issue of Peninsula "tantamount to hate speech," as one acquaintance told me recently. Knowing those who wrote for it, however, I must protest this characterization. There may have been inaccuracies, some flawed logic and some lack of understanding of the problems that gays face. No one on Peninsula's staff was uniformly pleased with this issue either. But hate was no motivating force for its creation...