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However, the Faculty Council's informal approval this week of reforms demanding that Faculty members accept long-avoided responsibility for tutorial instruction is tantamount to admission that professorial enthusiasm for the great American experiment has lapsed...
Formal election to the speaker's chair will take place when the new Congress convenes in January, but yesterday's nomination is tantamount to acceptance for the 65-year-old O'Neill, since the Democrats hold a 277-158 margin in the newly elected House...
...sale of the widely prescribed pain reliever propoxyphene, best known as Darvon. He claimed not only that Darvon is an ineffective painkiller, but also that in excessive doses it produces a euphoric high, which he says, "makes it attractive as a drug of abuse. This is tantamount to legalized dope." Further, said Wolfe, Darvon-related deaths in the U.S. have been increasing, rising in major cities to about 600 last year and making the compound "the deadliest prescription drug in the United States." Eli Lilly and Co., of Indianapolis, the principal manufacturer, promptly branded Wolfe's charges "irresponsible and clearly...
...take ads from all those political candidates it does not endorse, as well as ads from the John Birch Society, the Republican Party, the Libertarian Party and numerous other exponents of unpopular philosophies. Having decided--contrary to all established principles of journalistic ethics--that sale of advertising space is tantamount to endorsement, it still might have a little difficulty separating the claims of free speech from those which are, supposedly, incorrect in their views. We hope that it might reconsider its stand in the near future, before reality intrudes--because these situations will continue to arise, no matter how fervently...
Restic summed up Harvard's offensive success on the day, which will prove tantamount to the team's success the rest of the way. "We know we're able to throw the ball," he said, "and we must make our passing game go before we start to run on teams. We can't run then pass and expect to win because we just don't have that power-type running game...