Word: tantamount
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...moving towards China in an effort to make the Soviets uncomfortable should not be part of the U.S. response. Providing the Chinese with non-nuclear arms and low-technology equipment would sooner or later be tantamount to military aid. Foreign policy should be conceived with priorities as well as long term interests in mind. And while playing the China card might in this situation have the desired effect we must look beyond the present crisis and contemplate the implications of arming China for the international system. We should also ask ourselves whether the American conscience would benefit from the knowledge...
...movement, which has as many as 10 million followers, is a loosely knit coalition of religious and New Right groups, plus individuals who feel a deep moral commitment to protecting unborn human life. Legalized abortion, they believe, not only contributes to a breakdown of traditional family values, but is tantamount to genocide. Their ultimate goal is a "Human Life Amendment" to the Constitution that would reverse Roe vs. Wade. The amendment would simply guarantee the right to life to the unborn from the moment of fertilization. A shorter-term strategy-so far largely successful-has been to halt federal funding...
...heredity. And yet perhaps not quite all...," he leaves himself open to attack from both fronts, the most strenuous coming from strict environmental determinists. This group believes that giving any weight to the effects of genetic determinants means that human behavior is somehow limited. Admitting this, they say, is tantamount to admitting that some social problems are insoluble. Perfect egalitarianism can and should be promoted. The implementation of this account has already had effects, such as the elimination in many schools of classes for the gifted...
...tantamount to killing the university," snapped the president of France's Avignon University, Geologist Joël Mahé. What has aroused Mahé and most of his fellow French university presidents is a decision by France's tough-minded minister of universities, Alice Saunier-Seïté, to cut back proliferating graduate degree programs at the nation's 76 universities, which in France are both accredited and financed by the state...
...More than half of his support came from the richer and less Catholic eastern end of the district. Said Frank: "I sometimes felt as though I was wrestling a tag team, with different people coming into the ring against me." Winning the district's Democratic nomination is usually tantamount to election. Moreover, Frank's Republican opponent is little known: retired Army Dentist Richard Jones, 45, a conservative from the town of Harvard, who opposes gun control and federal funding of abortions. But Frank intends to take no chances, and will run flat out. The conservatives' tag game...