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True Boogie-Woogie I conceive as homogeneous in intention with mine in painting: destruction of melody, which is the equivalent of destruction of natural appearance, and construction through the continuous opposition of pure means - dynamic rhythm.

You know the Little League World Series? It's the hockey equivalent of that.

The problem is Twitter is designing the metaphorical equivalent of a Toyota Prius. A car for the masses. While I want a Formula One race car.

Unfortunately, the proponents of censorship won out by inflaming false fears that this critical analysis lesson plan is the equivalent of teaching intelligent design.

The American people deserve a 'rebate' for the wasteful costs imposed on them by our broken tax system. The dollar amount exceeds the combined revenue of Sears, Walt Disney, Microsoft, Rite Aid, and McDonald's, while the yearly paperwork volume is staggering: over 1.3 billion information items and 8 billion pages of forms and instructions. The hours expended annually in this ritual is equivalent to the labor of over 2.5 million people. Don't we all have more productive things to do with our time?

The article said that since the Upper West Side lost Charivari (an expensive clothing retailer) and the China Club (a nightspot), it's equivalent to 'a mall in Iowa,'

The appeal of the paranormal bad boy - or James Bond super-spy, as one example of male escapism - can sometimes make everyday problems seem less dire. Thus, a few hours spent immersed in the world of the wicked yet alluring hero is the equivalent of a mini-vacation.

The amount of computing resources put into place with a grid architecture can be enormous. Companies get to add the equivalent of a couple thousands PCs and that added horsepower that they do not have to pay for.

We have an equivalent amount of energy in just one gram or about a raisin-size worth of antimatter.

With the U.S. economy hot and global growth accelerating, the issue of Fed tightening has become the conceptual equivalent of pondering a possible California earthquake. It's going to happen, but probably not tomorrow, and participants would rather not think about it.

Usually, there is no equivalent of air traffic control at sea. Some busy areas operate 'traffic separation schemes,' but mostly, ships are treated like cars on roads where there are rules and codes of behavior, and successful, accident-free outcomes depend on everyone respecting them. As on roads, this doesn't always work.

The 65 percent solution is the equivalent of a chicken in every pot.

The ($500,000) would be nearly equivalent to our baseball budget or our softball budget. That's how big a deal this would be.

Most large organizations have some sort of disaster recovery plan for their IT. But where is the equivalent HR disaster plan? If people cannot get to work and the phone system in their office has been cut off, what should they do?

We need to recognize we may be about to experience our equivalent of the Asian tsunami, in terms of the damage and the numbers of people that can be killed.

Most of the big cable companies provide voice over Internet services that are equivalent to regular wire line phone service. The catch is they don't let customers be nomadic, you can't use a phone number from outside your regular service area.

We had cyclones equivalent to what weather service here would consider a tropical storm. Three times those things rolled up and pumped out a lot of water. We were stranded in the city.

We don't think bad debt is equivalent to charity care.

We're delivering a great event that will last 17 days. Even with a 12 to 14 rating in prime time, that's the equivalent of having six Super Bowls.

That would be roughly equivalent to the number of doses that are used in a typical flu season.

We're graduating Gabe, and that's an enormous number of points to lose off a team, and we don't have his equivalent in junior high or in the freshman or sophomore classes.

The question is where to set our sights next. The only cap I see coming up is on the order of $85 a barrel -- something equivalent in real terms to the highest we saw.

Voters can have on the equivalent of five different pairs of glasses when they judge a policy proposal.

To withdraw the case is the equivalent of a verdict of innocence.

We are seeing a 50 percent reduction in the risk of colon cancer when we compare the top 20 percent of the population of women who in mid-life are exercising at the equivalent of an hour of walking a day,

The data that kind of shocked me and got me started on this book was finding out that mothers get paid a lot less for equivalent jobs.

We'll just have to go back to the shop and perform the automotive equivalent of an autopsy on the car. Only then will we be able to determine the C.O.D. That's 'cause of death' to those of you who don't know.

To attract an economic equivalent could take a generation. We have been pursuing prospects -- some successful, some not so successful -- but they pale in comparison to what this could mean,

We're retreating to the film equivalent of macaroni and cheese.

We've got Dove-nominated bands. It's the Christian music industry's equivalent of the Grammys.

What happens is there's an increase down the road in the number of people who end up in emergency rooms and hospitals. The cost to the system is actually more. It's the equivalent to what happened to the levees in New Orleans.

We're finding abundant evidence for alteration of rocks in a water environment. What we want to do is figure out which layers were on top of which other layers. To do that it has been helpful to keep climbing for good views of how the layers are tilted to varying degrees. Understanding the sequence of layers is equivalent to having a deep drill core from drilling beneath the plains.

We've already amassed the ratings equivalent of a Super Bowl and we still have two weeks to go. Sunday night has become the toughest night on TV, and it speaks to the power of the Olympics that they bring so many additional viewers to the television, who otherwise wouldn't be watching.

Conventional surgical robots are the equivalent of a sophisticated racecar compared to your basic family sedan. For some surgeries, you need a complex robot, but for many surgeries you do not. You wouldn't take an Indy racecar to the grocery store.

Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.

CTA has already spent on the initiative campaign the equivalent of what the temporary dues increase would bring over three years. If CTA is unable to get the line of credit, there is significant risk that an outstanding $20 million line will be called.

Beware of generalizations about any faith because they sometimes amount to the religious equivalent of racial profiling. Hinduism contained both Gandhi and the fanatic who assassinated him.

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

Corporate America is on the mend. The only downside of stronger productivity growth is that it means hiring is lagging. As far as downsides go, this is roughly the equivalent of eating your broccoli. It may be tough to stomach at first, but it makes you stronger and healthier in the long run.

Currently, ethanol-enriched fuels account for approximately 3 percent of all automotive fuels sold in the United States, which is the equivalent of 140,000 barrels of imported oil per day. With increased consumer awareness and support for ethanol, we can move the needle and further reduce the amount of oil we currently import from other countries.

What we anticipate to get out of ANWR would be the equivalent of the Texas oilfields, ... To those suggesting Texas is insignificant in terms of its contribution, we would say that is crazy.

Twenty percent of workers say they called into work because they just didn't feel like going into the office that day. One in four workers report they feel sick days are equivalent to extra vacation days and treat them as such.

I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy.

Coming from Ireland, it's quite hard to do a startup because you're culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, it's much easier. It's the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood.

It would definitely hurt our state, if we lose the equivalent of 11 percent of our House delegation,

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter?

The title is the equivalent of when you become a doctor after years of medical school training... I suppose after years of chewing up the furniture and scenery on stage and in films I get to Sir for being a thespian.

Tupolev ... had radio links out to the various factories, and they would report almost daily on their progress. It was the equivalent of their Manhattan Project -- high priority.

As they age, we learn how to deal with the symptoms of old age whether it's the equivalent of arthritis in our joints or senility in our memory.

ISPs do the equivalent of pumping out raw sewage into your home. You wouldn't expect to have to filter your own water, so why do home users have to filter their own data?

The second thing is, how do you provide an equivalent infrastructure so people not in the office are not penalized? Obviously, if they're penalized, the company is also.

What she did would be the equivalent of someone from here on the track and field team, or the swim team, competing in the Olympic trials. She was hard on herself afterwards since she usually finishes at the top, but the reality is that those were the only thirty or so skiers in the country that could beat her.

We will have the equivalent of 'letters de cachet'.

I've said many times, what we are seeing now is the equivalent of last century's Industrial Revolution,

It would be the equivalent of George W. Bush running for election with a family full of communists.

To me looting is about the equivalent of grave robbing, ... We're not going to stand for it.

We feel like the lawsuit was filed prematurely. They don't take possession of the facility until June 1, and the city's stance has always been not to worry, a functional equivalent will be available.

We also found that a modest exercise program equivalent to a brisk 30-minute walk six times a week can prevent accumulation of visceral fat, while even more exercise can actually reverse the amount of visceral fat.

We've had a long ride back from a cancellation of a short-lived television series to the release of a major motion picture. I don't know if there's any other story equivalent to that in Hollywood history,

We are very pleased to gain this opportunity to explore for oil and gas in Mozambique. Through our regional evaluation and analysis of existing seismic data covering most of the block, we have already identified multiple leads across an area equivalent in size to 460 typical Gulf of Mexico lease blocks.

We didn't make our free throws. It's pretty simple. We didn't convert at the free-throw line - that's the equivalent of a turnover (each time). It's about making shots you need to make. You have got to make free throws to win games. And without defensive rebounding you're not going to win.

Rangers will receive 2,100 seats - the equivalent of 12 per cent of our capacity - a figure that we feel is more than fair.

Perhaps it goes without saying these days, but we must note that the high fixed cost, commodity equivalent nature of the airline business makes investing in the equities extremely risky. Over the long term, the industry destroys shareholder value.

Or it's the equivalent of going to the moon and back four times.

People feel generally that we will see some equivalent forward-looking language that guides market expectations to expect action at least into the early part of next year.

The term 'budget' has almost become equivalent to a four-letter word. I like people to look at it as a spending plan.

Of the six billion people on this planet, two billion live on the equivalent of less than $2 a day in American currency, ... As long as America is the land of opportunity and jobs, people will do whatever it takes to come here.

Something roughly equivalent in features could be worth more or less in a different setting,

Fake drugs is a business that is equivalent to murder.

Exxon produces the equivalent of a small country every year so replacing that with new reserves is a tough task. But they've got a pipeline of opportunities coming online that promises to be a meaningful driver of growth.

Few places in the world are the equivalent of Cuba as an adventure travel destination. On some level it's forbidden, on some level it's untouched.

Seeing outward is equivalent to looking backward in time because the telescope's mirror is capturing primeval light... galaxies that existed before our time.

On Demand has become very popular among viewers and will continue to grow as cable adds new content every month. Comcast alone had a record 130 million On Demand views, which is equivalent to 55 million hours spent watching On Demand, and nearly 6,000 shows available in the month of November. We anticipate this will be even higher in January when Sci-Fi On Demand will be featured.

Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. Now someone with a thumb drive, or remotely, can take the equivalent of millions of those notecards.

I've always thought of beauty therapy, 'alternative' treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched.

The modern-day equivalent of shoving money under your mattress is your checking account. Any way you can get to it with your ATM card. Easy access. And there you're guaranteed to get returns that might not even keep up with inflation.

As cruise ships continue to grow in size, we'll continue to see ever-increasing amounts of pollution. Since today's vessels are equivalent to small cities in size, the volume of waste discharged every day is rapidly growing.

America is truly special because it's founded on an idea. It's the ideological and philosophical equivalent of a formless God, in other words, you know? It's, again, the only great country in the world that it is formed out of words.

A lot of people don't understand that the ISM number is not actually an output number. It's the equivalent of consumer confidence, but for businesses. So certainly outlook has improved, but it remains to be seen how clearly that will translate into actual activity.

They're a 13 watt bulb that's equivalent to a 60 watt light bulb.

Safer chemicals and more energy-efficient technologies can provide cooling without severe climate implications. Shifting to these alternatives could avoid the equivalent of 12 times the current annual carbon pollution of the United States by 2050.

Santa Cruz has three more power points than us (which is equivalent to a victory), so I expect that we can compete with them. My scouting report is that they are a relatively smaller sized, ball control/finesse team so we should match up OK.

Right now there are around 1.3 billion accidents causing 40,000 fatalities each year. That's the equivalent of two jumbo jets full of passengers crashing every day.

Elvis Presley Ate Here' is the cultural equivalent of 'George Washington Slept Here', ... Every time a place makes a claim that Elvis ate there, it becomes a memorial to his memory, to his life and to his legend.

E-mail is the electronic equivalent of DNA evidence. If your workplace gets embroiled in a lawsuit, you can take it to the bank that your e-mail will be subpoenaed.

Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.

Thirty-eight percent of workers said they feel sick days are equivalent to vacation days. While the definition of a sick day has evolved with more employers including mental health and special circumstances in the description, workers need to be respectful of company policies and their responsibilities as an employee.

This is the equivalent of a comet hitting the planet. Of all the things that are in the world, why are we fixated on this one thing. Scanning containers full of sneakers for a 'nuke in the box' is not a really thoughtful thing.

This is the equivalent of a more traditional :30 spot on TV, rather than running a search impression and banner ad because of the level of engagement.

This is the equivalent of handing back the box cutters to the 9/11 hijackers,

This is the equivalent of the liberation of Paris in the Second World War,

This is the equivalent of the Sweet 16 for the students.

This is the equivalent of trying to sedate a dinosaur.

This is going to be the equivalent of a 40-mile wide F3 or F2 tornado.

This is good news for Salem-Keizer. That's roughly equivalent to 1 percent of our yearly budget and will be considered in the budget process, which continues during the next couple of months.

This is great news for the economy in the north-east ...The facility will also enable us to dramatically reduce our impact on the environment. We will save two million road miles a year - equivalent to five trips to the moon.

This is an exciting number, but it was warmer in November than usual. The warm weather is the equivalent of zero-percent financing on automobile sales. You're going to see this work itself off in months to come.

This is equivalent to the government subsidy for public transport for the next 100 years.