Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...iron ore, must be imported. The costs of raw materials are higher for her than for the United States and Western Europe. Her capital resources are much smaller. The average American laborer, with ten times as much equipment to work with, produces six times as much as his Japanese counterpart. It is evident that Japanese industry cannot afford to pay the same wages to its workmen as can American industry, with its different and richer endowments...
...counterpart of the Anti-Digit Dialing League [July 13] in the past would likely have campaigned against the introduction of dial telephones on the grounds that the human society would become too technologically oriented; human relations would be better served by retaining the feminine operator to place all calls...
Rousing Rabble. Yoknapatawpha and its county seat, Jefferson, have their pale counterpart in actuality: Lafayette County and Oxford, where Faulkner lived, worked and occasionally puzzled his mildly curious fellow citizens. "The posted woods on my property contain several tame squirrels," he advised them a few years ago in a sarcastic no-trespassing notice he published in the weekly Oxford Eagle. "Any hunter who feels himself too lacking in woodcraft and marksmanship to approach a dangerous wild squirrel, might feel safe with these." But the real county is the one Faulkner invented, just as the real Troy is Homer...
...Cliffie has abandoned "those wretched black stockings," is brighter than her Harvard counterpart, and lives in a predominantly masculine environment, about which, Arlen writes, "she tends to be keenly enthusiastic." The Girl With the Harvard Degree can be "downright solemn at times" about such serious matters as "Independence, Privacy, Personal Freedom, Maturity, and Being-Left-Alone...
Outraged Northerners might reflect on what these rides mean to the South. They have heard the argument that the Southern Negro is happier than his Northern counterpart, that the Negro doesn't really seek improvement. Now Northerners see the most rabid Southern group publicly confessing that the South cannot satisfy even its most ill-educated, ignorant Negroes, that--and this is a crushing admission--there is a Negro problem in the South. Responsible Southern newspapers have already read this lesson into the rides, and they are absolutely correct. The segregationists are confessing that Southern society is a failure...