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...consumer division, the contenders were Thomas C. Theobald, 46, who oversaw lending to corporations and foreign governments, and Hans H. Angermueller, 59, the director of legal affairs and lobbying. Wriston never explicitly said that one of these men would be the next chairman, but to outsiders his move appeared tantamount to decking the three in armor and sending them into an arena filled with cheering throngs to fight...
...teaching load here, feel more comfortable? Harvard can also take steps to attract even better junior faculty in the first place. Such a move would help to raise the low number of internal promotions that survive Harvard's tenure process--a process that has been described as tantamount to the canonization of a saint...
...children were distressed. My friends were appalled. I was infuriated, and in an earlier day, when the reputations of public persons were still protected by the law, might have sued for libel. But I could hardly run away from these false charges. Failing to confront them would be tantamount to saying that I was afraid of scrutiny because I did not think I could stand...
Affirmative action is seen as acceptable, even desirable, but only so long as it does not harm a single hair on a single white male head. Given the sweeping, long-term effects of past discrimination affirmative action under such strictures would be tantamount to no affirmative action at all, If our society is so shortsighted as to be unwilling to undergo limited short-term departures from absolute "equal treatment" for even so important a goal as racial and sexual equality, then social justice for all-but-the-most powerful does not stand much of a chance in this country...
...solicitor general of the U.S., pointed out to the Court that if federal recognition of Christmas--an important Christian holiday--is reconcilable with the Establishment Clause, then the religious symbols attached to the holiday must also be constitutional. Moreover, Lee argued that lower court decisions opposing Nativity scenes were tantamount to "cultural censorship," discriminating on the content of speech...