Word: counterpart
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...Ireland last week, and that contrasted sharply with the air of despondency following the I.R.A.'s Feb. 9 bomb blast in London's Docklands, which ended its 17-month cease-fire and appeared to shatter the peace process for Northern Ireland. British Prime Minister John Major and his Irish counterpart, John Bruton, emerged from a Downing Street summit to present a joint plan for all-party talks on Ulster's future that could pave the way for peace. What was needed was a clear signal that the I.R.A. would call off the violence, thus allowing its political wing, Sinn Fein...
Gelman, a major reason Harvard is in the midst of a program-best 10 game winning streak, turned in yet another superb performance. Whether she was dishing to an open teammate or backing down her Princeton counterpart for a turnaround jumper, Gelman was unstoppable. She finished the game with 11 points and 11 assists...
Those matches were as close as the Lord Jeffs came to preventing the contest from being a shutout. Co-captain Joe Kaplan and junior Jake Hollinger both won by 3-1 counts, but in both cases the Amherst player won a game when his counterpart already had a commanding 2-0 lead...
...then we could get past this sticking point."Your Papers, PleaseDiplomatic niceties between the nations have been far between since Washington infuriated Beijing last June by allowing the Taiwanese president to visit his American alma mater. For one, China recalled its U.S. ambassador and stopped speaking to his American counterpart. Wednesday, however, former Tennessee Senator Jim Sasser presented his credentials to President Jiang Zemin in a brief ceremony marking his posting to the Chinese capital. Like President Clinton, Sasser is expected to stress to least controversial issue now confronting the powers: how to keep bilateral business bustling...
...then we could get past this sticking point."Your Papers, PleaseDiplomatic niceties between the nations have been far between since Washington infuriated Beijing last June by allowing the Taiwanese president to visit his American alma mater. For one, China recalled its U.S. ambassador and stopped speaking to his American counterpart. Wednesday, however, former Tennessee Senator Jim Sasser presented his credentials to President Jiang Zemin in a brief ceremony marking his posting to the Chinese capital. Like President Clinton, Sasser is expected to stress to least controversial issue now confronting the powers: how to keep bilateral business bustling...