Word: counterpart
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...Board, one of the University's two governing bodies, is responsible for approving the major decisions of its more powerful counterpart, the Corporation. The 30 Overseers meet at least five times per year, advising the University's president and influencing its long-term policies...
According to the CUE Guide, History 10a had only 51 undergraduates enrolled last year, while its second-semester counterpart--which focused largely on sex as an issue in recent history--drew only 13 students...
Bowdoin's counterpart in the Yale net couldn't say the same...
About a month after its Senate counterpart delivered ascathing assessment of the CIA's handlingof the Aldrich Ames spy scandal, the House Intelligence Committee weighed in today with a verdict that the agency took a "negligent attitude" in trying to find the mole and stop him from damaging worldwide U.S. intelligence operations. Rep. Dan Glickman (D-Kan.), the committee chairman, called the Ames affair "a case of sloppiness in big capital letters" -- in part because the CIA didn't tell Congress it suspected a double-agent was loose in its ranks. The FBI also came under fire for being "inexplicably...
Scientists have a lock on agenefor obesity in mice and are probably around the corner from pinpointing a counterpart in humans -- a major finding that may confirm doctors' suspicions that many obese people aren't necessarily responsible for their condition, according to a report to be published Thursday in Nature, a scientific journal. The findings -- which raise the possibility that drugs could control weight problems -- were developed by researchers at Rockefeller University. They say they have isolated the first gene that clearly participates in the normal process of regulating weight, though genetics remains one of several factors involved.TIME medical writer...