Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Board of Overseers, as one of the University's two governing bodies, is responsible for approving the major decisions of its more powerful counterpart, the Corporation...
...Wednesday, Shaq fought Hakeem to a standoff, but with just 0.3 sec. left in the first overtime, Olajuwon tipped in a shot to give himself 31 points and the Rockets a 120-118 win. In Friday's Game 2, the 32-year-old center outplayed his larger, younger counterpart for most of the game, which the Rockets took, 117-106. Olajuwon had 22 points in the first half alone, as Houston built an insurmountable lead, and he finished the night with 34 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks...
...Puccini operas, such as The Saint of Bleecker Street and The Medium, than for comedy or farce. In later years, however, the aging composer more than made up for it. The setting was the antebellum-in-aspic city of Charleston, South Carolina, where in 1977 Menotti founded an American counterpart to his annual Spoleto Festival in Italy. Two years ago, Menotti resigned in a huff after a petulant, embarrassing two-year power struggle with the festival's board and management. First the board insisted on including an avant-garde art exhibit Menotti opposed, then it rejected Menotti's chosen successor...
Some 10 bands are also scheduled to appear on two stages. The main stage features G-Love and Special Sauce, Spatula, Swedish Cookie, Fuzzy Navel and Daily Planet. Its smaller counterpart will host several other Harvard bands, including Mezzaluna, Blanket Envy, Steamship of Beef, Ground Zero and Jaws of Clay...
...glittering, Depression-era musicals, died at her home in Rancho Mirage near Palm Springs. The pair first danced during Broadway rehearsals for "Girl Crazy," a 1930 Gershwin musical. Her close friend President Reagan (in an uncredited paraphrase of a Gloria Steinem one-liner) said in 1986: "Her male counterpart got the lion's share of publicity but Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, and did it with high heels on, and did it backwards...