Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jericho. Two vehicles, one from each side, cruised the area together, flying bright saffron flags, their occupants communicating in Arabic, Hebrew and sometimes English on Israeli-issued Motorola radios. Said an Israeli soldier: "They were our enemies, but now we work together. We made the switch." His Palestinian counterpart added, "We are friendly with them, trading water, food and hot drinks...
...most popular single drink with teenagers, the company still wants to beef up its presence in carbonated drinks aimed specifically at teens. Pepsi's Mountain Dew, the most popular such beverage, owns 3.5% of the U.S. soft-drink market, compared with just 0.3% for Coke's citrus counterpart, Mello Yello. "Coke is trying to take it all," says Larry Jabbonsky, editor of the trade journal Beverage World. "Traditionally, Coca-Cola and Pepsi have allowed smaller players to be the product innovators. Now Coke is becoming an innovator...
...which no one is quite accountable and consequences can be annulled by changing the channel -- or adducing a childhood trauma. That powerful universe of sensational illusion has increasingly come to determine the moral atmosphere of America. The virtual world of trailer-park daytime television even has its academic counterpart in structuralism and deconstruction, whose practitioners sever reality from "text" and thereby render everything vulnerable to the most subjective, onanistic reading...
Well, the Baseball Beanpot will take a back seat to its hockey counterpart for a long, long time. 41 years of hockey tradition go much farther than five years of baseball. The players try just as hard, but the tournament is staged in a minor-league...
Dorothea's male counterpart is Tertius Lydgate (Douglas Hodge), a young doctor who sets up practice in Middlemarch and agrees to run, for free, a research hospital funded by the town's grasping banker. Lydgate also makes a disastrous marriage -- to Rosamond Vincy (Trevyn McDowell), a flirtatious ninny whose spendthrift ways soon bring the couple to the edge of bankruptcy. Burdened by debt, Lydgate abandons his dreams of reforming medicine to take a conventional but lucrative practice in London...