Word: tantamount
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...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...
...return to civil war. Muslim groups feared that the Phalangists might put new pressure on the feeble regime of President Elias Sarkis for a de facto partition of the country. As for the Palestine Liberation Organization, whose headquarters are in Beirut, it regarded the events of last week as tantamount to "a declaration of war on the Palestinians...
...more beleaguered he feels, the more imperiously Menachem Begin behaves. In trumpeting his accomplishments, he implied that the election of a Labor government would be tantamount to handing over the West Bank to the Palestine Liberation Organization. He complained of a "putsch atmosphere" created by civilian protesters against his government's policies. After Arab students at Israeli universities began wearing T shirts proclaiming their support of the P.L.O., Begin threatened to expel them. The students, as it happens, are Israeli citizens who enjoy the constitutional guarantees of free speech...
Arthur Lipkin, a teacher at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, said he plans to ignore the law because "offering the option (to pray) is tantamount to inviting it." He and about 50 other teachers have signed a petition declaring that they will not offer a prayer period in their classrooms. If any disciplinary sanctions are enacted, Lipkin said that he will face the consequences...