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...Harold Murphy, secretary of the Cambridge Police Association, said that he thinks that instituting a police commissioner is tantamount to "throwing $30-40,000 out the window...
With the constantly increasing height and mobility of college big men, the ref underneath has a chore tantamount to untangling gregarious octopi. "The referee on the outside is the key to the whole game" explains Hannon. "He has the best picture. He's the bailout...
...Between Past and Future Hannah Arendt described how the old authority was lost in the modern world; this loss is "tantamount to the loss of the groundwork of the world." Ever since, the world "has begun to shift, to change and transform itself with ever increasing rapidity from one shape into another ... Everything at any moment can become almost anything else." But, while hardly an optimist, she agreed that the loss "does not entail, at least not necessarily, the loss of the human capacity for building, preserving and caring for a world that can survive us and remain a place...
Born in 1862 to a prominent New York family, Edith grew up in a world of high, narrow town houses and high, narrow minds. As a woman, she was supposed to know enough to be a good hostess and no more; to be educated was tantamount to being pushy, a sin just below adultery in the eyes of old New York. Judged by those almost Oriental rules, Edith Jones was a misfit, and she was more at home in the library than in the drawing room...
...Labor Party. "This settlement bodes no good for Israel," says Zevulun Hammer, a member of the right-wing National Religious Party. "We get no political compensation for giving up territory. We expose ourselves to a security danger, and the very strong element of U.S. pressure is tantamount to a dictate from the U.S." Adds Shmuel Tamir, head of the right-wing Free Center faction: "This is not an agreement. It is unilateral withdrawal." The right-wing Gush Emunim movement is planning a giant anti-Kissinger demonstration when the Secretary of State takes his shuttle to Jerusalem. "Kissinger is a disaster...