One of the features of those who believe BPA is very dangerous is a communicative approach that sensationalizes their findings, such as claiming that allowing your baby to drink out of a plastic bottle is equivalent to giving them a contraceptive pill, or that BPA is the biological equivalent of global warming.
The system evolved into a mandarinate that is equivalent to a modern technocracy.
Mr. HARLAN OLMAN (Military Strategist): Bob Gates is in essence becoming the surgeon or the doctor of a patient, in this case Iraq, which is equivalent to a person who is now in their 60s who has smoke and drunk considerably during their entire life and the doctor says you have lung cancer, you have heart cancer and your liver is failing.
Think of it this way: A meteorologist's job is equivalent to guessing when a flashmob is going to break out.
It says that if in this space any closed-curve object, such as a rubber band, can be shrunk to a point, then the space is topologically equivalent to a sphere.
Demonstrating the ability, and the inclination, to write well is a rough equivalent to showing up in a black Mercedes.
All told, kettlebells helped participants burn about 20 calories a minute, which is equivalent to running a six-minute mile.
For a taxpayer in the top federal bracket of 35%, a 3% dividend yield is equivalent to a 4% yield on a taxable bond.
That's because selling a credit swap is equivalent to buying the corporate bond on margin.
The total project - which is estimated will see about 30 million passengers a year passing through its doors - is the equivalent to completing a second Gatwick Airport, says Mr Wolstenholme.
And Mr. Chuang points out that the show is organized like a novel, in which each section is a chapter and each picture equivalent to a paragraph.
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For example, receiving a 50% matching contribution is the equivalent to earning a 50% rate of return instantly.
This time they did multiple clones of multiple people, and they did it at a ratio that is roughly equivalent to what it would take you to do in vitro fertilization, something a lot of people are familiar with.
Pairing a Cius with a docking station, Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and applications is equivalent to a virtual desktop, he contends.
In a television interview, Ms. Katayama, a former Finance Ministry official, said the projected sum is equivalent to a two-percentage-point increase in the national sales tax an unpopular tax the government is now struggling to raise.
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If the foreign worker earned his or her degree outside the U.S., you will need to obtain a credentials evaluation stating that the foreign degree is the equivalent to one awarded by a U.S. college or university.
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For instance, requiring encryption software and hardware makers to hold a decoding key in "key escrow" is the equivalent of asking a bank to hold an extra set of safe-deposit-box keys.
The DP2 Merrill has a 30mm F2.8 lens, which is the equivalent to a 45mm lens on a 35mm SLR camera.
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In many cases all the manufacturer has to do is show that a device is reasonably safe and "substantially equivalent" to other legally marketed devices.
While this point is certainly debatable, current academic research is becoming increasingly clear that such a love, if not evil, is certainly isolating a fate equivalent to death for ambitious entrepreneurs.
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For example, if a web scraper checks a site for changes several thousand times per second, it is functionally equivalent to a denial of service attack.
Being able to find a business by name rather than having to look up its address is the physical-world equivalent of typing in a domain name versus having to remember an IP address.
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"Specifically, to reach annual radiation dose limits, a passenger would have to receive more than approximately 17, 000 screenings in a 12-month period, which is equivalent to approximately 47 screenings per day, 365 days per year, " the inspector general's office concluded in an executive summary.
Dujardin, with a pencil mustache, looks a little like John Gilbert, but his cavorting star is meant to be a Fairbanks equivalent.
The US Army-funded research seems promising but is obviously still in its infancy -- one of the designs the researchers demonstrated is half the size of a penny but pumps out 120dB of noise (about the same as a siren), while another bumped out over 135dB, (which is roughly equivalent to a jackhammer).
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Using financial penalties to coerce action is either the equivalent of a mandate or it is not, but the decision seems to take two opposite stances on this question.
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The results, which will be reported in a forthcoming issue of Functional Ecology, suggest that echelon swimming is the underwater equivalent to carrying a child.
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This is equivalent to a total drop in output, relative to potential, of 7%.
It is equivalent to a huge tax hike, greatly affecting those who least can afford it.
Dubbed "Parivartan, " which means "change" in Hindi, it is equivalent to a Coca-Cola-University-on-Wheels.
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