Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...start of the fractious meeting it seemed that any agreement might be scuttled by Kuwaiti Oil Minister Ali Khalifa Al-Sabah and his Saudi Arabian counterpart Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, OPEC's two richest members, had insisted on bolstering their production by some 10%. In the end, Saudi Arabia accepted no increase for itself and instead offered to donate its share of the 200,000 bbl.-a-day production hike to Kuwait...
...primary purposes of the game is to highlight the importance of communication between United States and Soviet leaders. Most of the three-hour tape shows the negotiations that precede a hot-line conversation between the president and his Soviet counterpart...
...Crimson defense, like its Princeton counterpart, has been solid sometimes and poor at others. Led by Captain and linebacker Scott Collins, the Crimson defense turned in a tremendous performance against Cornell, limiting the Big Red to a mere field goal. Against Holy Cross, however, Harvard collapsed and allowed 44 points...
Harvard outshot Dartmouth 18-12 over the course of the game, and Crimson goalie Chad Reilly was forced to make only four saves, while his Green counterpart, John Scott, had to stop eight Harvard shots on goal. But Reilly had no chance on Stanojevic's well-placed penalty boot...
Back in the World is refreshing for its variety. "Soldier's Joy" is a venture into despair that we almost don't escape. "The Missing Person," on the other hand, has a protagonist who is almost as strange and lost and cynical as his counterpart in "Soldier's Joy." He is a priest whom life has clubbed with one disgrace after another, but who begins a quiet, enduring love affair with a woman he meets by chance at a hotel...