Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those who travel to Yale will be mere spectators at The Game. Harvard house intramural teams will travel to Yale in force to take on their counterpart teams in events ranging from touch football to soccer...
Meanwhile, the Administration won at least a symbolic victory in its efforts to persuade West Germany to spur its economy. The standoff between Baker and his West German counterpart, Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg, eased slightly, aided by an announcement from the German central bank that it would cut two of its less important interest rates. If Bonn were to follow up * on that step and reduce its prime interest rates, there would be less pressure on the dollar. Reason: the greenback has been declining because U.S. interest rates have lately been falling in comparison with those of West Germany...
...other refuseniks. Moscow has allowed 5,423 Soviet Jews to emigrate so far this year, nearly six times the 914 who were permitted to leave in 1986 (but still a far cry from the 51,300 let out in 1979). Among the departees are Ida Nudel, Slepak's counterpart as "mother of the refuseniks," and several other prominent Jewish emigration activists. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze has told U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz that at least 12,000 Soviet Jews will be given exit visas...
...counterpart at the Univesity of Chicago,James Nye, agreed, saying that because it costs somuch for a university to catalogue a book, it doesnot pay to accept books without any researchvalue...
...rites: the orgiastic reception by female fans accorded to Dion (Obba Babatunde), a Presley symbol, and the lustful revels of the mythic Bacchae in praise of their priapic god, Dionysus. Each principal singer takes two roles. Mom (Suzanne Costallos) falls under the Pelvis' spell, just as her ancient Greek counterpart, Agave, is seduced by Dionysus. When Sonny (Christopher Durham) attempts to intervene, he is, in his alter ego of Pentheus, torn apart by the horde of crazed women...