Buying in 10% of the shares is mathematically identical to paying a special dividend equivalent to 10% of the market cap and then declaring a 9-for-10 reverse stock split.

FORBES: Buyback Boomlet

The Russians produced often-equivalent tools in a special factory dedicated to supporting secret operations.

FORBES: A Former KGB Covert Entry Expert Speaks

In some ways, Get Water is like the video game equivalent of an afterschool special, but with better production values.

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This is a bit like the ICO's equivalent of schools being placed in special measures following a critical inspection by Ofsted.

BBC: Department for Education

Only Chile, which saved the equivalent of 12% of GDP in a special fund during the boom, can repeat the dose for several years from its own resources.

ECONOMIST: Latin America's economies

In America, the minimum wage for adult workers was 39% of median earnings in 1997, but the special low minimum wage for workers aged under 20 was equivalent to 53% of mean youth earnings.

ECONOMIST: Not so fair pay

In order to deliver equivalent land-based performance, MTN has invested in the design and launch of special-purpose satellite payloads that will ride on the next generation Intelsat EPIC platform which will offer at-sea communications experience which is presently impossible to achieve.

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The outcome, eventually, was a rule by which a company can keep a special-purpose vehicle off its balance sheet as long as an independent third party owns a controlling equity interest equivalent to at least 3% of the fair value of its assets.

ECONOMIST: Company accounts