Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fell to a six-month low this week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin wrote to his Japanese counterpart urging Japanese leaders to boost the country's stagnant economy. Rubin is especially concerned about the impact of a financial meltdown in South Korea, one of Japan's fiercest regional competitors. Japan may be tempted to let the yen fall in value if the same thing happens to the South Korean currency. That could cause the U.S. trade deficit to grow $60 billion to $110 billion by early 1999, experts...
Everybody knows by now that we put in a bottom in that first hour, one that we will no doubt retest in the coming days, but one that smacks of as much of a bottom as its '87 counterpart. As in all bottoms, there were no sellers, just buyers--panicked ones at that--and I had to reach for stocks 2 and 3 points above where they looked to be trading at the time on my screen...
...diplomacy, the well-timed gesture can make all the difference. During presummit haggling, National Security Adviser SANDY BERGER warned his Chinese counterpart, Liu Hua Qui, that the ballooning trade deficit with China, $44 billion this year, was going to provoke a mega-political backlash. Liu replied that the deficit had many complex causes, including wrongheaded U.S. export controls. During a break, a frustrated Berger told an aide to buy a present for Liu. When the Chinese official unwrapped it, he found, instead of the traditional vase, a spanking-new Barbie--made in China, of course. Berger razzed him, "I want...
...focus, gratuitous marketing and a waste of raw materials. In addition to providing another unnecessary compilation of unrelated tunes for the consumer public, the inexplicable, unnecessary nature and order of Bean: The Album represents every shred of numbing dumbness that bleeds throughout the movie. But there is an unavoidable counterpart to this misdirected stupidity that becomes apparent with each silly song; the tracks are connected by an inane disconnectedness reminiscent of the classic, original Mr. Bean character that could blossom into a smirch of enjoyment. The probability of liking Bean: The Album is slim, the possibility of laughing from song...
...recent surge of self-help and spiritual renewal literature, humor "writers" now have even more fodder with which to antagonize the "battle of the sexes." A grand favorite of this genre is the "girls rule, boys drool" pseudo-feminist text, as well as the male role-reversal counterpart, in which one gender is blasted incessantly in the hopes that the opposite sex will cry, "It's true!" between shrieks of laughter. Two recent addition to these battle, Macho Meditations: Daily Thoughts and Inspirations for Real Men and The Guys' Guide to Guys' Videos: The First Video Guide with an Attitude...