Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...uranium for nuclear warheads. The amount of money involved was small--less than $100,000--but the implications for the proliferation of nuclear weapons were very great. Although U.S. law called for sanctions against China, Secretary of State Warren Christopher ruled against them after receiving private pledges from his counterpart, Foreign Minister Qian Qichen. Qian told Christopher the top leaders had not known about the transaction and would make sure it did not happen again--though he refused to say it publicly...
...rumor." So no interview--but Melbourne businessman Jean Mazloun says he struck a $280,000 deal with Schiffer's New York management for her to appear at the Australian designer-collections parade. "And it was worth every cent," says Mazloun. Schiffer's New York agent, like his Aussie counterpart, swears the model's fee was nowhere near the quoted figure. "I wish," says Aline Souliers. "My cut would be fantastic...
...Republicans for extending insufficient sympathy to the family, which opened the floodgates to comparative condolences. Was Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour's four-line press release equivalent to then Democratic Party head Ron Brown's flying the flag at half staff over party headquarters and attending services when his counterpart, Lee Atwater, died young of a brain tumor? Shouldn't the Speaker of the House and Senate majority leader have gone to the funeral of a Cabinet secretary...
...boat also had a strong race, finishing in third place and decisively beating its UMass counterpart...
...existing system, the U.S. EPA sets the minimum standards, while individual states are free to raise these levels. Typically, Harvard deals with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection rather than its national counterpart...