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Major-league equivalencies.
Ramos thinks that the best political comedians, with their fake news and stone-faced parody, are trusted because they offer, at bottom, "transparency" about their own views, rather than simply a straight news report that viewers have come to know is often riddled with false equivalencies in pursuit of "balance".
Indeed, in the preface, the editors cheerfully announce that any strong form of the belief to which their book may seem to be a monument is certainly false: "Some pretty good equivalencies are always available. . . .
The most interesting objects in "Plain or Fancy?" are those that disrupt simple equivalencies of the twentieth century with Plain and the seventeenth with Fancy, or industrial products with Plain and handwork with Fancy.
Writing a budget is an exercise in just those sorts of equivalencies: would this particular dollar be best spent on arts, history, public education, luring companies to Texas, ensuring air safety or keeping a no-new-taxes promise?
Even there we are doing so by creating false equivalencies.
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It contains the germ of a mathematical equivalence proof, but it does not contain a rigorous proof of equivalency: the mathematical framework that Schrödinger associated with wave mechanics is a space of continuous and normalizable functions, which is too small to establish the appropriate relation with matrix mechanics.
The American Council on Education is reviewing a handful of Coursera's classes for credit equivalency; once approved, universities can choose to grant credit for them (or not).
Just 7% believed the police do a good job in their areaWriting for the Guardian today, the Archbishop of Canterbury manages to express sympathy for the rioters and take a swipe at consumerism and (via a nifty analogy) float the idea of moral equivalency between the riots and the financial markets.
Taylor Branch repeatedly draws a false equivalency to slavery.Student athletes deserve more, but I find each of these comparisons both patronising to student athletes and insulting to slaves and victims of sexual abuse.
Tina was surprised to learn how much less women on pre-paid plans were spending, and encouraged to learn how much money she could save by switching plans.Next we were instructed to figure out long-term goals (an apartment, a job, etc).. Tina's goal, after having her baby, was to obtain her GED (her high-school equivalency degree).
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