Sentences with phrase «equivalent of dime»

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(An arcsecond is 1/3, 600 of a degree and is equivalent to the width of a dime as seen from a distance of two kilometers.)

Meyer observes that it is in this six - month story of education reform leading up to the successful RttT finish — the equivalent of turning a battleship on a dime — that «we can see Steiner's brilliance — and understand the bittersweet feeling of many New York educators who have lost their leader before they got to the Promised Land.»

The announcement rattled me, since I was just finishing up a feature story for Ed Next on Steiner's brilliant leadership in taking the moribund Empire State to the RTTT winner's circle in nine short months — the equivalent of turning on a dime in the education reform world.

In your post, freight class books are the equivalent of old dime novels and don't do well, while first class fiction is brilliant and easily nets royalties and accolades.