Word: counterpart
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...parade of parvenus is the strange but direct result of federal campaign-finance laws that set limits on the amount of money most candidates can raise from any single donor. While typical wannabes might go to five donors to raise $10,000, a rich counterpart can just write a check and devote time normally spent at fund raisers to winning votes instead. That explains why the parties narrowcast for fat-walleted candidates who can shoulder the burden themselves. It also explains why elders of both parties quietly persuaded the authors of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform bill to remove...
...leaders have been eyeing both countries with growing alarm. In a letter to his Japanese counterpart two weeks ago, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin reportedly urged Tokyo to move swiftly to regenerate the Japanese economy and warned against flooding the U.S. with exports as a way to solve Japanese problems. And with concerns rising in Congress, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testified last week that Asia's problems, while not yet "serious threats" to the U.S. economy, could become so if they are not defused properly. To do that, Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers was to meet with Japanese officials...
What's worse, the ill feelings may translate into congressional action. Last week Sun CEO Scott McNealy was on Capitol Hill lobbying House Judiciary chairman Henry Hyde. Orrin Hatch, Hyde's Senate counterpart, has already held a Microsoft hearing, and is likely to hold more next year; Hyde is mulling similar action. "No one company," Hatch has solemnly opined, "should be able to dominate everything in one industry...
Russian ragtime is a type of Russian 70s music that, like its American counterpart, evokes nostalgia for a seemingly golden era which never actually existed. 1974 Russia indeed seems golden to Misha, a 20-year-old who dreams of living in New York, Misha starts working on the black market in an attempt to raise money for a black market ticket to New York. His work doesn't seem too taxing, and he spends most of his time cavorting exuberantly with his two best friends...