Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rich in patronage and rife with possibilities of scandal (see THE LAW). In the course of ten years on the State Supreme Court, Democrat Klein, 61, had earned a sound judicial reputation, and as frequently happens in New York, Tammany Boss J. Raymond ("the Fox") Jones and his Republican counterpart agreed to make the judicial nomination bipartisan. Such pacts were originally justified by the argument that they freed judgeships from domination by one party or party boss. On a practical basis, they also gave both parties a share of the patronage...
...right, the negative peeling off to the left, and the neutral leaving no path at all. After analyzing photographs of 1,441 sets of such tracks, the Franzinis determined that in more than half of the cases the positively charged pion was therefore traveling faster than its negative counterpart...
...irrepressibly energetic man whose normal gait is a gallop, Javits has been a Senator for nearly ten years. Thus, though that exalted station might once have seemed impossibly remote for a poor boy born in what Javits fondly describes as "the urban counterpart to a log cabin?a janitor's flat in a tenement," its ambit today seems too confining for his vaulting talents and ambitions. Having never previously stood still in any one place for so long, Javits is pawing the track and sniffing the air in quest of a higher prize?a place on his party...
...congregate at separate tables. The Houses have made possible certain events -- speeches and faculty dinners -- which would be difficult to maintain on as large a scale by individual dormitories. The hope that they will magically arouse in Radcliffe students some "college feeling" seems utopian. There is no feminine counterpart to the male camaraderie which seems to characterize so much of Harvard House life. Merely adapting Harvard's system does not seem to be the solution...
...community, although he may have the most intense interest in the welfare of his patients. This is not to say that every physician in rural America has a deep understanding of the health needs of his community. Nevertheless, he usually knows his community better than his urban counterpart and therefore is provided the opportunity to understand his patients better not just as sick people, but as members of a social group...