Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Bill Clinton has threatened to veto some issues, last year's Republican sweep has put the Western lawmakers, many of whom are longtime members of Congress, into a position to make good on their agenda. In the Senate, for example, Alaska's Frank Murkowski heads the counterpart panel to Young's House committee on resources. Between them, the two ferociously prodevelopment Alaskans oversee most of the natural-resources legislation that comes before Congress. Alaska's other Republican Senator, Ted Stevens, runs the Governmental Affairs Committee. That gives him a line of fire on the U.S. Forest Service, which oversees...
...Harvard's version of Midnight Madness enjoys anything near the success of its B.U. counterpart, however, Tomassoni, Konik, Tracy and company will have accomplished their goal...
...poverty of means then available to an American painter, Copley had created a counterpart to the plain, didactic neoclassical style that Jacques-Louis David used in his portrait of the Lavoisiers: earnestness, probity, equality, set forth within the frame of marriage, an Ideal Republic of two. In England he would paint more elaborate images than this--but none more close knit and concentrated...
...fine print. after months of hinting that his Republicans knew just how to cut $270 billion out of Medicare by 2002 while simultaneously widening its possibilities--and swearing that only the details needed polishing--Newt Gingrich finally unveiled the Medicare Preservation Act last Thursday. The proposal and its Senate counterpart, introduced Friday, were indeed abulge with details. But the most important one--how they would reach the savings goal--was missing. Highlights...
...Vietnamese officer saluted and put out his hand. "Captain Vo Cong Hieu, commanding 2nd Battalion," he said in passable English. Hieu was my Army of the Republic of Vietnam (arvn) counterpart, the man I would be advising. He was short, in his early 30s, with a broad face and an engaging smile. But for the uniform, I would have taken him for a genial schoolteacher...