1.   He has never graduated from the American equivalent of high school, and struggles with correspondence courses.

2.   He is a master of so many media that it is difficult to imagine an American equivalent.

3.   He wants each Starbucks to become a neighborhood meeting place, the American equivalent of the cafes in Verona, Italy, that inspired the coffee-bar concept.

4.   I tried to think of what an American equivalent of this slogan would be.

5.   I wish there were an American equivalent to this A-to-Z guide to the most common vegetables in Britain.

6.   The American equivalent of the Russian bag of rocks is battle-ax.

7.   The rough American equivalent might be pairing George McGovern and Gen. Curtis LeMay.

8.   These data-workers are not rootless part-timers, as their American equivalents might be.

9.   This is the American equivalent of stripping the epaulets from the shoulders of a man who has disgraced the regiment.

10.   Under what is the American equivalent of bankruptcy protection, Railtrack will reorganize into a new private company.