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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.
The bato loco is tantamount to an archetype in Chicano culture; he is that crazy guy who isn’t afraid of life.
In Germany yesterday for the 10 th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, former President Bush reminisced about some bad advice he received a decade ago: "In my view, that would have been an open provocation, tantamount to sticking our fingers in the eyes of the Soviet military."
Under those circumstances, his judgment as to whether the work is "qualified for publication" is tantamount to saying that he endorses its conclusions.
Rather, in our approach to designing and developing BioD, we have begun with basic cell-biological models as test beds for BioD's conceptual framework (that is, of functional properties, icons and arrows), its lexicon and its icon-arrow linking rules (tantamount to a 'graphical grammar').