Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jangling fashion. The two congressional committees appeared headed for a sharp conflict in tactics. Senate probers were leaning toward granting limited immunity from prosecution to departed National Security Adviser John Poindexter in exchange for his testimony. This would put the committee on a collision course with both its House counterpart and with Walsh. Said one House committee source: "Immunity could be premature...
...courtly Soviet diplomat is explaining to his earnest, rumpled American counterpart why the Kremlin must reject what both sides agree is a fair and useful arms-control plan. They are standing in the one place they can be candid, a small stretch of forest near the villas where, with grave and formal ceremony, they daily meet. Shared frustration has made them intimates, if still not quite friends, so the answer is blunt: "We don't trust you." Long years at the table have persuaded the Soviet that neither government will actually reduce armaments; neither side can afford the risky belief...
...play is prefaced by a black and white home movie-type film by Gorey and director Will Provost that features some interesting Boston and Cambridge street scenes, but which is far too long and has little immediate relevance to its theatrical counterpart. The bizarre creative imaginations of Gorey and Provost are utilized more effectively through the course of the play itself...
...acquisitions. Kidder denies the Journal account, as well as any other wrongdoing. The Government charges that Siegel, who was apparently eager to get the arbitrage division rolling quickly, took part in a plan to share inside tips among two Kidder, Peabody arbitragers, Richard Wigton and Timothy Tabor, and a counterpart at the Goldman, Sachs investment firm, Robert Freeman...
...taken it from $25 a bbl. down to below $10 and then back up to almost $18. But the wild ride appears to be over for the time being, much to the relief of producers and consumers alike. When Treasury Secretary James Baker met with his Saudi Arabian counterpart Mohammed Ali Abdul Khail in Khail's country last week, the two finance officials seemed to think that worldwide crude prices had finally settled at a mutually agreeable level. The current price still provides consumers with relatively cheap energy but is less likely than $10 a bbl. to create economic disaster...