The tests, carried out at Woomera (once the British empire's equivalent of Cape Canaveral), involved a charge equivalent to six tonnes of TNT.

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The regulator also says Merrill had agreements with certain customers that it would only charge commissions equivalent for executing riskless principal trades.

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The charge is equivalent to a hate crime under Oklahoma law, according to Partners Against Hate, a joint project of the Anti-Defamation League, the Leadership Conference Education Fund and the Center for Preventing Hate nonprofit groups.

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Some UK shops that charge VAT-equivalent prices argue it covers their shipping costs.

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In both cases the player can lock-on to nearby enemies, fire two core weapons (a machinegun and the equivalent of a grenade launcher), and unleash a couple of charge attacks that are as explosive as they are damaging.

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Buying a ticket now is the equivalent of a down payment, Boyd says, as airlines look for ways to charge passengers for everything from water to luggage.

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Obama believed that hiring Larry Summers and Tim Geithner to rein in Wall Street was equivalent to FDR putting Joseph Kennedy, the swashbuckling scion of the Kennedy clan, in charge of the SEC in 1933.

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