Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...statement of principles. That seemed logical enough, but the ploy reinforced the claim by George Bush that Michael Dukakis is a "Stealth candidate" who ducks specific positions. So when Republican drafters went to work, they produced a 30,000-word monster, nearly ten times the size of its Democratic counterpart...
...Soviets have had their share of blunders to rival the U.S.'s DIVAD, an antiaircraft weapon that was scrapped in 1985 after a $1.8 billion development outlay. Moscow pushed ahead with its ZSU-30-2, a DIVAD counterpart, but despite a decade of improvements, the weapon's radar guidance system still does not operate properly. Many experts even sneer at the Blackjack bomber, which suffered flight problems and engine setbacks that kept it in development for more than a decade...
Richards' Republican counterpart is New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, a moderate who has already stirred up the kind of trouble usually reserved for Democratic conventions. New Hampshire Senator Gordon Humphrey has threatened a walkout during Kean's speech (Kean is against a constitutional ban on abortion) unless an antiabortion speaker is given equal time...
Unable to match the success of its heavier counterpart, the Harvard lightweight crew placed second behind top-seeded Princeton in the national championship Empire State Regatta on the Hudson River in Albany, N.Y. It was the second straight year that the lights were runners-up for the national title...
Akhromeyev's American counterpart, Admiral William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was far away yet closely following the same issue. He had been scheduled to take a trip to Asia after a NATO meeting in Brussels, but he went back to Washington instead. He kept his television set at the Pentagon tuned to the Cable News Network for its frequent on-the-scene reports from Moscow and conducted a number of conversations over a scrambler phone with Carlucci and National Security Adviser Colin Powell, who is an Army lieutenant general. Crowe was hoping that the Soviets would...