Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...emergence. The now ubiquitous milk mustache campaign, with such notables as Christie Brinkley, Jennifer Aniston and Lauren Bacall sporting white upper lips and exclaiming, "Milk, what a surprise!" has been running since last January. The National Fluid Milk Processor Board has also joined forces with its California counterpart to license a quirky, award-winning series of TV spots called "Got Milk?" The theme is that people only think about milk when they haven't got it. "For the first time the industry is focusing on milk as a beverage," says Gordon McDonald, senior vice president at the American Dairy Association...
...looks like a highly profitable choice. IBM's service sector, with sales of $12.7 billion, is pegged to grow at around 25% a year--that's good news, since the company can sell real brainpower rather than its quickly obsolete silicon counterpart. The group is growing so fast, says Thoman, that it's facing a challenge that's novel even for IBM: locating 15,000 talented new bodies to throw into the business next year...
Clinton spokesman Joe Lockhart and Dole counterpart Nelson Warfield debated the debate on ABC's Good Morning America. NBC analyst Tim Russert and ABC's Jeff Greenfield weighed in on Don Imus' radio show. In a CBS poll, 50% of the respondents said they thought Clinton was the winner, vs. 28% for Dole. Rush Limbaugh replayed Clinton's response on the issue of presidential pardons and exclaimed, "Now what does that mean?" USA Today tracked the minute-by-minute responses of 148 voters in St. Louis, Missouri, and reported that they felt most favorable about Clinton when he praised health...
...close look at the report, released in compliance with the 1995 Congressional Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA), reveals that much of the discrepancy can be explained. For starters, the men's football team, with no female counterpart, makes up for more than half of the funding gap. In addition, the spending statistics include game management costs such as ticket sales, police, etc. which run much higher at men's football and hockey games, for instance, than at women's sporting events. Men's teams, however, make up for this increased cost by generating about five times more revenue than...
...long-term economic dependence upon the government is only a symptom of the greater problem -- the feeling of entitlement which big government fosters. Of course, this lack of responsibility is not only a characteristic of the poor. For every impoverished person in America, there is a wealthy counterpart who feels no sense of charity or responsibility toward his fellow citizen...