Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Minnie Magazine's technical counterpart is Communications Manager John Striker, who during the past 18 years has helped expand the network of Teletype, telex, commercial telegraph and cable facilities that serves Time Inc.; since 1962, he has added Bangkok, Singapore, Jerusalem, Hong Kong, Moscow, Nairobi, New Delhi and Beirut to the list of bureaus linked directly by telex with New York. In Saigon on a trouble-shooting mission in 1965, Striker improved world communications with South Viet Nam by opening the first private radio-cable circuit to New York via Manila. In 1967, when we sensed the need...
...firmly against any work-rule changes that would further reduce longshoremen's jobs. The West Coast strike could turn into the first nationwide shipping stoppage in U.S. history. Contracts covering 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association, the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico counterpart of Bridges' I.L.W.U., expire Sept. 30. Union negotiators are demanding a guaranteed annual wage-an innovation in the seasonal shipping business that employers are hardly eager to grant. Nevertheless, says I.L.A. Boss Thomas W. Gleason, his members are prepared to wait "until hell freezes over...
...years the House Foreign Affairs Committee, unlike its more visible counterpart in the Senate, has seemed more like a branch of the State Department than an independent representative of Congress. Said one influential member: "The first question that used to be asked in this committee was: Why are we doing this? The Administration didn...
...makes man's future cliff-hang: "The next dimension of psychology, the step that may at last take us beyond a primitive mind/body empiricism, could well be semantic." He even crowds his way into the biological revolution: "It may be that human speech is in some way a counterpart to that decoding and translation of the neurochemical idiom which defines and perpetuates our biological existence...
...fastback alert" is sounded, and Phantom jets are catapulted off the carriers to keep the Badgers from getting too close. The Phantoms always approach gradually and at an angle, sometimes drawing abreast of the Soviet planes. On one such occasion, a Phantom pilot was surprised to see his Soviet counterpart hold up a centerfold from, of all things, Playboy magazine...