Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plans to assign staff correspondents to major international news centers, and will start publishing a special airmail edition that will be flown to world capitals and reach European newsstands only a few hours after publication. Thomson hopes the Scotsman will thus become the conservative, north-of-the-border counterpart of the Manchester Guardian, Britain's most prestigious provincial daily, while also reaching added circulation by appealing to the staunch home-country pride of Scots the world over. At home Thomson intends to invade the more thickly populated Scottish west coast and challenge the Scotsman's ancient adversary...
...Breakthrough. The age of electronics, born of radio, was force fed by military necessity during World War II, when widespread use of radar and sonar extended man's eyes and ears far into the skies and deep into the ocean. With peace came radar's civilian counterpart : a vast new TV industry that has already put 42 million sets in U.S. homes. But the great breakthrough in electronics came in 1948. Bell Telephone Laboratories discovered the transistor, which took over many of the functions of temperamental glass vacuum tubes. Along with other new semiconductors such as power diodes...
Offenbach's brand of light opera is ever so much more frothy than its contemporary Anglo-Saxon counterpart, with little of the latter's pointed if slightly aging satire. It consists for the most part of many very agreeable musical pieces linked together by a singularly loose thread of plot. This plot centers less on Orpheus, represented as a violinist with a vast distaste for Eurydice, than on Jupiter's attempts to get her away from the tender mercies of her kidnaper, Pluto, so that he may have her for his own tender mercies. Jupiter's efforts are complicated...
...rural coops. Organized in 1952 to free small farmers from local Chinese moneylenders, the co-op system needs expert management help. ICA will pay $368,000 to cover A.D.L.'s U.S. expenses (including a $38,300 fee), while the Philippines pay the company's overseas expenses with counterpart pesos. In return, A.D.L. will set up 700 more coops, train a local staff for each, steady the flow of produce to market, stabilize nationwide food prices for farmers and consumers. ¶ It contracted with the Norwegian government to plan industrial development in three northern provinces ravaged in World...
...plays billiards or belotte with old friends in favorite bistro. Madame Mollet keeps tabs on his mayoral duties; they have two daughters, Jacqueline and Dolly, one grandchild. A confessed Anglophile, he chain-smokes Player's and admires British "fair play" (a phrase which, he points out, has no counterpart in French); in first three months as Premier lost 15 Ibs., has since regained nine...