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In total, the weighted average cost per healthcare worker employed in the state of Oregon amounted to $0.
In issuing what amounted to a public vote of confidence in the market, IBM was actually continuing a venerable tradition of Establishment attempts to quell selling panics by intervening loudly and decisively.
Compare those Watergate betrayals with the watered-down subversion of Stephanopoulos and Panetta, which amounted to saying on television what was obvious--that Clinton is in trouble unless he explains himself soon--and you would conclude that loyalty has been on the rise since the Nixon years.
C'mon, Brent, you can't think George W.'s pass at the Unity convention amounted to anything serious?
It amounted, Toobin argues, to a "high-minded rationale for covering the sex lives of famous people" that satisfied a "hunger for sleaze" in a "competitive market for journalists and journalism."