It was Posner who famously said in a 1995 decision that certifying a class on behalf of millions of consumers could be the equivalent of handing the plaintiffs a victory.
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For example, a tax-free yield of 3% would be the equivalent of a 4.6% taxable yield for someone in the 35% bracket, and 4.97% for someone in the 39.6% bracket.
It said the benefit of changes in operations in the north of the county were anticipated to be the equivalent of 130.5 full-time constables, although this would not mean the loss of a similar amount of jobs as a direct response.
Yet, considering a population of 1.4 billion, if 1% of them were moving out of poverty each year it would be the equivalent of the population of Russia all of a sudden having a little extra cash to spend at the supermarket.
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One recent study, by an American academic, Shang-Jin Wei, calculated that an increase in the level of corruption from that of Singapore to that of, say, Mexico would be the equivalent of increasing the tax burden on foreign investors by over 20%.
If the blades spin fast enough to deliver on average 40% of their peak power, that 45 gigawatts would be the equivalent of 18 gigawatts of steady power.
But as a member of the audience asked Paddy Ashdown at the fringe, who is going to be the equivalent of the Prussians at Waterloo, riding to the rescue of Clegg's beleaguered troops?
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Will they be the equivalent of a Scandinavian country in the upper end of the scale?
And they need to recognise that gay marriage could well be their equivalent of the gun issue.
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There can be no equivalent of his campaign over the month of September, no comparable airtime or coverage.
In Northern Ireland, the gas reserves have been estimated to be the equivalent of about 1.5bn barrels of oil.
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New TLDs would be the equivalent of all of a sudden offering prefixes like 992 and 44435 as toll-free extensions.
It would be the equivalent of us hoisting the white flag to Liverpool FC that they can 'have the city'.
The Tories are hopeful that Mr Mandelson's scalp might prove to be the equivalent of Michael Portillo's talismanic defeat in 1997.
The Duma would be the equivalent of the US House of Representatives.
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Repeal would be the equivalent of a rate cut, boosting equity prices.
"It'd be the equivalent of a funeral where everyone can attend and everyone can spend 30 minutes behind the podium, " Goss said.
If you buy a municipal bond that yields 6 percent, then it would be the equivalent of a taxable yield of 8 percent.
The tax hit, the company reportedly said, would be the equivalent of the total value of its seven-year lease on its Townsend Street headquarters.
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If three people on average live in one flat, this would be the equivalent of building new housing for the combined populations of Britain and Poland.
We found that the emissions reductions from this tiny step alone would be the equivalent of taking 3.7 million cars off the road for a year.
Craig Alexander, the chief economist for TD Financial Group, estimates all this will be the equivalent of about a 1% rise in mortgage rates for most homebuyers.
For Iceland to pay up, it would be the equivalent of the U.S. paying out six or seven trillion dollars or the UK paying out half a trillion.
But the truth is that online networking can be the equivalent of career insurance, opening up your options and keeping you resilient in the face of job changes.
This new deal, Mr Brown said, would be an equivalent of the Marshall Plan, under which the United States helped revive the European economy after World War II.
Because rather than getting a real stake in the social networking giant, it looks like purchasing the stock will at best be the equivalent of being a peasant in Farmville.
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If women's economic potential can be successfully harnessed and leveraged, it would be the equivalent of having an additional one billion individuals in business and in the workforce contributing to the global economy.
If Walmart is able to replicate their efforts on a national level, an 80 percent reduction in waste would be the equivalent of preventing 11.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year.
If every home in the U.S. were to implement these energy-saving technologies, it would be the equivalent of taking all the homes in California, New York and Texas off the power grid (32 million homes).
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