Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...identical energies. But when a team led by Columbia University's Dr. Paolo Franzini examined 1,441 photographs of eta-meson decay in the Brookhaven bubble chamber (TIME, July 8), they found that in 53% of the photographs the positive pion apparently had more energy than its negative counterpart-a significant violation of symmetry...
...wife, two children and a gross annual income of $14,000, and what do you get? In the U.S.-$11,968. A survey of European executives in similar circumstances, conducted by Associated Industrial Consultants of London, shows that the Frenchman plays the game $100 better than his U.S. counterpart. The Norwegian does worst of all. The ranking...
...less likely to have a chemistry or physics lab; judged by nationwide test scores, teachers in Negro schools are educationally less qualified than those in white ones. Standard achievement tests show that by the sixth grade, a Negro in the metropolitan Northeast is 1.6 grades behind his white counterpart; by the twelfth grade he is 3.3 years behind. Although the survey admits that the home is a key factor in developing the desire to learn, it suggests that desegregation does help. A Negro who has studied in an integrated situation for most of his school career scores an average...
...sense of invasion is not necessarily physical. For every soliciting doorbell-ringer there is his counterpart on the telephone-and few Americans can resist the imperative of a ringing phone. The TV set is a chattering presence. The mailbox is constantly flooded by printed sales pitches. How did the catering service know that a family's daughter was getting married or that they had just bought their first...
...beautiful Olivia, though she is not at ease with her lines; and the veils she and her retinue wear when Viola-Cesario first visits her ought to be far less transparent. Elizabeth Parrish needs to invest the part of Olivia's maid Maria with more vivacity. Fabian, her male counterpart, fails in the hands of Julian Miller to leave much of any impression...