He had joined a delirious celebration whose mass jumping may have caused the equivalent of a minor earthquake.
No one, neither critics nor partisans of the Communist Party, imagined that a viral disease was about to cause the equivalent of a national train wreck.
The device detonated today was modest by historical standards, the equivalent of 20 kilotons of TNT, causing the equivalent of an earthquake registering 4.5 on the Richter scale, roughly the same strength of the bombs that devastated the core of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
The subsea permafrost in the Arctic is thawing, and we could experience a methane "burp" of previously trapped gas at any moment, causing the equivalent of several times the total amount of CO2 humans have emitted to be released into the atmosphere.
In fact, things turned out far worse than he had imagined, causing the equivalent of a commercial meltdown at this complex on England's wild northwestern coast, which has been a cauldron of environmental, commercial and social tension ever since the opening of the first unit, a nuclear power station, here in 1956 and a fire a year later that tarnished the company's reputation from the start.
At the time he told me that he liked what he heard that day and hoped Tiger had found a way out of the behavior that caused the equivalent of a nuclear bomb to go off in his life.
The nine artists who filed the suit sought the equivalent of $170,000 for "moral injury" caused by the exhibition, "Russia 2".
In November, a storm intensified explosively causing bombogenesis - the equivalent of a meteorological bomb - and created wind gusts exceeding 90 mph.
Evidence for the macrocomplex was based on the observation that loss of band 3 expression caused the equivalent loss of a number of other proteins, including proteins of the Rh complex.
As currently structured, the American health care system makes it very difficult for those with chronic illnesses to manage their conditions, causing them to perform the equivalent of unpaid labor.
