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...main television news program, Vremya, devoted its entire 17-minute opening segment to anti-Yeltsin diatribes. Soviet television even aired unusual live coverage of the Supreme Soviet as lawmakers voted to censure Yeltsin, 292 to 29, with 27 abstentions. His TV statement, said hard-line parliamentarian Anatoli Chekhoyev, "was tantamount to a declaration of civil...
Bleary-eyed zombies are all over campus, yet some lunatics still undermine sleep, calling for a 24-hour Harvard library. Do they not realize the transparency of their plot? It it succeeds, sleeping will indeed be tantamount to conceding defeat in the undergraduate rat race. SIESTA will fight this pernicious evil to the bitter...
Though the measures also required that the President first certify to Congress that sanctions were not working, supporters said the resolutions were tantamount -- but not identical -- to a declaration of war. Both houses also defeated alternative resolutions, sponsored by the Democratic leadership, calling for a delay in military action until sanctions had been given more time to work. In the Senate it lost 53 to 46 with 10 Democrats but just one Republican, Iowa's Charles Grassley, abandoning the party line. The House vote...
...true that AALARM was permitted to use the slower, featureless and poorer quality self-service copiers. But today, denying access to the best technology is tantamount to censorship. Why not, for that matter, deny an organization the use of a phone service, claiming that it is still free to go door-to-door...
...employee simply refused to aid AALARM in its pursuit of free speech. This is not tantamount to censorship, as AALARM has charged. Individuals, as an issue of conscience, must not oppose the right of others to freedom of speech, but they need not participate in that speech...