Word: counterpart
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West European leaders acknowledge that the terrorist threat to their countries cannot be solved without a concerted effort. The day after Besse's murder, French Interior Minister Pasqua and his West German counterpart, Friedrich Zimmermann, agreed in a two-hour meeting to begin exchanging members of their antiterrorist liaison teams in an attempt to develop a regular flow of information between the two countries...
...unlike its counterpart of the previous year, this year's squad played its best game of the season very early...
Harvard has its own freshman counterpart to B.U.'s Glynn in Glasgow native Derek Mills, who has 10 goals and four assists in eight contests...
...other than Americans, and perhaps went beyond Lebanon. According to a knowledgeable Israeli source, Assad was attempting a "multinational swap," a kind of coordinated release involving not just U.S. hostages but possibly those from Britain, France and Italy, and even an Israeli airman held in Lebanon. In Israel, the counterpart would presumably be the freeing of some or all of 108 Shi'ites being held in southern Lebanon by the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militia. It was not clear whether a grand swap would also involve other Arab prisoners held in the West. According to one report circulating...
...used to be viewed even by most American critics of apartheid as good corporate citizens as long as they abided by the principles. A strong U.S. corporate presence in South Africa, moreover, was applauded by the Reagan Administration, which considered business pressure for enlightened but gradual change an important counterpart to its policy of constructive engagement...