Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chief irony of the past week's convoluted maneuverings is that each side in the biggest antitrust case in two decades knew where its counterpart stood well before the conflict's looming D-day--Microsoft's May 15 deadline for giving its new operating system, Windows 98, to PC manufacturers. DOJ antitrust chief Joel Klein believed that the ways Microsoft uses its Windows monopoly to dominate other markets violate antitrust law, and that the company had to be reined in lest it gain a choke hold on the Internet. Gates felt otherwise, and had long since made it clear that...
...Jaime's counterpart, Harvard freshman ChelseaThoke, was ineffective against a Sooners lineupthat was strong from spots one through nine. Afterkeeping Oklahoma off the scoreboard for threeinnings, Thoke allowed one run in the fourth, twoin the fifth and five in the sixth. She gave upseven earned runs and six walks on 12 hits whilestriking out five batters in five and two-thirdsinnings...
...phrase that Clinton highlighted in this year's State of the Union message. "Both governments have to react to challenges like globalization and better education for workers, and we have similar perspectives on what's needed," says White House aide Sidney Blumenthal, who organizes the meetings with his British counterpart, David Miliband, Blair's policy chief...
Enter electronic cash. The idea of digital money is simple enough: instead of storing value on paper, find a way to wrap it in a string of digits that's more portable and (most important) smarter than its paper counterpart. Smart money? Well, yes. Because digital cash is endlessly mutable, you can control it much more precisely than paper money. Think about the $2,000 check you send to your daughter at college for expenses. How is that money really spent? Books...or beer? Electronic cash takes that relatively simple transaction--passing an allowance--and makes it into a much...
Sophomore Jared Strauss, the chair of Duke'sSpecial Events Committee which plans Springfestand its fall counterpart, Octoberfest, says theevent was "primarily a crafts fair...