Equivalent
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As the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the US brutally reminded us, a lethal threat need not come from
equivalent
military hardware.
An Internet search brought me just one clear-cut case of a footballer doing something
equivalent
to a batsman walking.
But German, French, Spanish, and even Greek bonds all carried roughly the same interest rate, so they were deemed
equivalent.
Such sluggish performance is the economic
equivalent
of “stall speed” – the heightened vulnerability that aircrafts can encounter at low velocity.
I pointed out the possibility of a Middle East conflagration
equivalent
to the Thirty Years War in Europe, which is estimated to have killed between half and three-quarters of the population of some of the participating states.
Is this the Hollywood
equivalent
of a police officer’s “blue wall of silence,” or is there something more clinical at work?
One test explosion set the infamous record for the largest-ever manmade explosion: the Soviet Tsar bomb, detonated on October 30, 1961, was the
equivalent
of 4,000 Hiroshima bombs.
From 1995 to 2004, Germany lost a total of 1.09 million full-time
equivalent
jobs in manufacturing and trade.
On the contrary, employment outside manufacturing and trade declined, so that the economy as a whole suffered a net loss of 1.26 million full-time
equivalent
jobs.
According to OPEC’s monthly report, oil production has declined by 27%
(equivalent
to 520,000 barrels per day) in the 12 months to April of 2018.
Indeed, the Europeans need the
equivalent
of the US Constitutional Convention – and the difficult ratification debate that followed.
For example, a study published in the British journal BMC Public Health has found that if the rest of the world had the same average body mass index as the US, this would be the
equivalent
of adding almost one billion people to the global population, greatly exacerbating water stress.
According to evolutionary psychologists, such displays of blatant benevolence are the human
equivalent
of the male peacock’s tail.
They also notice that the economy is imploding, while Iraq is calming down only because the US is paying insurgents and al-Qaeda sympathizers the
equivalent
of a monthly car payment per person not to kill its soldiers.
Taking advantage of the Internet and weibo (the Chinese
equivalent
of Twitter), they have become champions of social justice.
The rubble produced in the Great Hanshin Earthquake was
equivalent
to the amount that Japan normally processes in roughly eight years.
Rubble is
equivalent
to 11 years of waste in Iwate prefecture, and 19 years of waste in Miyagi prefecture – enormous volumes that exceed these regions’ disposal capacity.
During the political horse-trading that preceded the creation of the EBA (together with two
equivalent
bodies for securities and insurance), it was agreed that the new authority would be based in London.
This means that scientists can apply the CRISPR-Cas mechanism to correct problems in the genome – the
equivalent
of typos in a written text.
Germany’s exports exceeded its imports by nearly $200 billion in the past twelve months, a surplus
equivalent
to nearly 6% of GDP.
By some estimates, if the world completes all of the dam projects currently underway or planned without mitigation measures, the resulting infrastructure would disrupt 300,000 kilometers (186,411 miles) of free-flowing rivers – a length
equivalent
to seven trips around the planet.
And yet it has found the resources to house 1.1 million Syrian exiles –
equivalent
to nearly a quarter of its population – and lead an international endeavor to ensure that refugee children are provided access to education.
Fifty million –
equivalent
to the entire population of the United Kingdom – cope on less than $1.
These laborers, housewives, and others, some of whom live on the
equivalent
of $0.60-0.70 or less a day, are seldom given a place at the table to discuss policy.
Texas rice farmers, however, pay just $10, and every year they consume the
equivalent
of a five-foot flood.
Powell’s
equivalent
of Trump’s Mexican bogeyman was Indian and Pakistani immigration, which he portrayed as threatening the British way of life.
Powell had no
equivalent
of Twitter to spread the word, and there was no Fox News or Breitbart to create an ideological echo chamber.
But, while more than 200,000 people perished in the tsunami disaster, an
equivalent
number of children die each month of malaria in Africa, a disaster I call a “silent tsunami.”
This would facilitate higher infrastructure investment, with an increase
equivalent
to 1% of GDP translating into an additional 3.4 million jobs in India, 1.5 million in the United States, 1.3 million in Brazil, and 700,000 in Indonesia.
Similarly, intelligent transportation systems for roads can double or triple the use of an asset – typically at a fraction of the cost of adding the
equivalent
in physical capacity.
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