Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is absolutely certain is that they ignored the needs and opinions of the most powerful new force in the marketplace: the professional woman, who is just as ambitious and conservative as her male counterpart -- and competitor. "I have worked very hard to reach a point where I am taken seriously in the business community," says Jean Brooks, senior vice president of a Los Angeles advertising firm. "A short, short skirt is not going to help that." Asks Andrea Mitchell, White House correspondent for NBC News: "Can you imagine me sitting down to interview the First Lady in a skirt...
Hachette joins a fast-growing list of foreign publishers operating in the U.S. Just last February, Britain's Pearson paid $283 million to take over Addison-Wesley, a Massachusetts-based textbook maker. As the buyouts continue, U.S. publishing may become increasingly like its European counterpart, an industry that is dominated by a few behemoths...
Tuesday, 16--Building upon the momentum of his successful bid for auditor of Cornpone Country, Waylon T. Pickens stuns the Democratic and Republican parties by sweeping to victory in both parties' primaries. "We're in deep shit," said Democratic national Chairman Paul Kirk. "Us too," said his GOP counterpart. In a statement, Pickens tells reporters not to look into his past for sordid details. "I carry a piece and I like to use it," he added...
...under way between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. is the realization that Soviet musicians are not all ten feet tall. Exposed to only the best performers and the beneficiaries of some spectacular defections, many Americans had come to believe that the Soviet artist was superior to his Western counterpart. Since the latest round of emigration and exchange, epitomized by Vladimir Horowitz's triumphant return to his homeland two years ago, the inordinate fear of Communist musical supremacy has waned as familiarity has grown and widened. Ten feet tall? Five foot eight may be closer to the mark...
WASHINGTON--Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci was to ask his Soviet counterpart at talks beginning today in Switzerland whether highly publicized changes in Kremlin military doctrine mean reductions in Soviet forces...