Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...workable trading community. The dreams of a North Atlantic Free Trade Area, which would have initially embraced Britain, Canada and the U.S., and eventually Australia and New Zealand, have died for lack of interest among the potential partners. EFTA, the nine-nation trading bloc that Britain organized as a counterpart to the Common Market, has for all its economic success, failed to develop sufficient cohesion to compete with the more prosperous EEC. Despite misgivings, a majority of Britons are convinced that Britain will join Europe. But if the British, in a fit of bloody-mindedness, shut themselves out this time...
...remarkable string of successes. Even while the cosmonauts performed their orbital acrobatics, the rugged little unmanned Russian moon rover, Lunokhod, came back to life and resumed its patrols for the eighth consecutive two-week-long lunar day. Farther out in space, two Russian spacecraft were racing their smaller American counterpart, Mariner 9, to the planet Mars. But the attention of the world was focused on the orbiting cosmonauts and their achievement: the manning of the first experimental laboratory in orbit around the earth...
Another major part of the Jesus movement is the highly organized, interdenominational youth movement of the established churches?a sort of person-to-person counterpart of mass-rally evangelism. Though they have been around for decades, supported by local congregations and generous private contributors, they are finding a huge new growth in the Jesus revolution...
...whose parents migrated to America to escape the potato famine, the young Berrigans were torn between conflicting aspects of their own background. On the one hand, there was the immigrant's desire to prove himself a loyal American, combined with the Catholic's tendency to play the staunch, conservative counterpart to the renegade, insurgent Protestant tradition in which America was founded. On the other hand is the fact that their father, Tom Berrigan, was a progressive and a labor leader, a rarity when set against his own background. And yet Tom Berrigan was so loyal a Catholic that his worldly...
During the 1960 presidential campaign, Richard Nixon said that John Kennedy's proposed Peace Corps sounded like "a haven for draft dodgers." More recently, a poverty-program official in the Nixon Administration sneered at VISTA, the Peace Corps' domestic counterpart: "The day that Lady Bountiful comes down from Scarsdale for a day of good works in Harlem is over...