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As it turns out, Big Tobacco was ambivalent about the safe-cigarette projects because they exposed the industry to an uncomfortable double bind: Making a "safer" cigarette is tantamount to confessing that regular cigarettes are dangerous when taken as directed, something the industry had spent billions denying.
Pollock added the notion that demonstrations of effectiveness in primary care settings, in the eyes of policymakers and payers, are not tantamount to demonstrating cost-effectiveness in emergency departments, underscoring the importance of research in that setting.
Once again the historical pedant, he explained why the Clinton campaign-finance scandal--which he previously called merely "worse than Watergate"--is actually tantamount to the fall of Rome.
A straightforward Good day', with little stress on good , is the neutral greeting; Good' day', with equal stress and even a slight pause between the words, uttered emphatically, is tantamount to dismissal; the Australian G'dye is again the neutral expression on meeting or parting.
In its groveling 1990 editorial apology, the Inquirer said: "Our critics countered that to dangle cash or some other benefit in front of a desperately poor woman is tantamount to coercion.