Word: complementing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economics prize is the only Nobel award established to complement the five prizes that dynamite-inventor Alfred B. Nobel created in his will at the end of last century. It was instituted in 1968 by Sweden's Central Bank...
...White House chatting with the President, by joining the New Hampshire attorney general's staff. Shortly after Warren Rudman became state attorney general in 1970, he plucked Souter from a group of assistants to become his top aide. The thoroughly scholarly Souter soon became the perfect complement to the gregarious, politically wired Rudman. The two, along with Rath, who headed Bob Dole's losing presidential campaign in the 1988 New Hampshire primary, became best friends. Rath joked that his job in the office was to go to lunch and "explain to Warren what David had just said...
Despite Milosevic's nationalism, few Serbs favor independence for their republic. Svetozar Stojanovic, a politics professor at the University of Belgrade, suggests that practical economics might discourage a total breakup of the federal state. He argues that the economies of the republics complement one another, an advantage that would be lost if all went their own way, and that separation would leave the question of the country's $16 billion foreign debt unresolved, discouraging any new foreign investment. Says Serbian economics professor Ljubisa Adamovic: "When they finally work out the costs of going it alone, they may be less anxious...
...women's center that would coordinate groups like Response and ECHO [Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach] is critically needed," Hufton said, adding, "it would complement the kind of work that...
...tobacco industry is lashing back. Realizing that their flat-earth rhetoric about the "inconclusive" and "tenuous" links between smoking and disease is no longer fooling anybody, their defense has become more shrill, more cagey. Call it a three-pronged attack; the metaphor conjures up images of pitchforks, which nicely complement the satanic motif already inherent in fire, smoke and self-inflicted suffering...