Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush's plans hinge on the domestic success of his Soviet counterpart, foreign policy experts at Harvard and in Washington say. They say there is a wide gap between what the Soviet people expect from Gorbachev's economic reforms and what he can deliver in the near future. The growing restlessness of the Soviet population, particularly its minorities, and the barely hidden bitterness of conservative forces could cripple Gorbachev and reverse the "softening" of Soviet foreign policy...
...important step when the two sides merely talk about talking. Thus there was muted applause last week when the North Korean government agreed to send a delegation to Panmunjom on Feb. 8 to discuss arrangements for a meeting between Prime Minister Yon Hyong Muk and his South Korean counterpart, Kang Young Hoon. Seoul had proposed such a meeting last year, hoping for an eventual summit between South Korean President Roh Tae Woo and North Korean President Kim Il Sung...
...last week's Paris conference, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz met with his West German counterpart, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and offered to provide a panel of West German officials with a full intelligence briefing in Washington. Perhaps seizing on that proposal as a diplomatic way to take a new tack, Genscher agreed not only to send such a delegation but also to tighten West Germany's notoriously loose regulations governing the export of potentially dangerous products, including chemicals. Two days later Bonn announced plans to increase the number of customer nations whose purchases are monitored and to impose more...
...witty repartee, which is rapid even for the British stage. Indeed, a quick pace seems to pervade the characters' every action. Elizabeth Humphrey as Mrs. Condomine affects a no-nonsense, secretarial air that perfectly fits, as her husband would say, her "glacial nature." As Humphrey's high strung counterpart, Peter Hirsch also seems to have had one too many cups of Sanka before the performance. This freneticism however, appears to be appropriate to Charles' character...
...deep conservatism that is both economic and social. Sununu helped turn around Bush's flagging campaign during the New Hampshire primary, when he urged the Vice President to emphasize his "no new taxes" pledge. The Governor then served as the campaign's top Dukakis basher, shadowing his Massachusetts counterpart and ridiculing him. Some Bush aides are concerned that the combative Sununu may run roughshod over Washington's more swollen and tender egos. Sununu, however, pledged to work warmly with Congress, purring with a Cheshire smile, "I'm a pussycat...