Word: counterpart
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Even so, the Crimson's offense was able to keep a step ahead of its counterpart throughout the first half...
...latest choice to be Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, withdrew his name. Although backed by major rights groups, Payton, who is black, was opposed by many members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Two other key personnel choices also withdrew: Gerald Torres, who would have been Payton's Justice counterpart on environment < matters, and New York lawyer Harold Ickes, whom Clinton wanted to take over the drive for his health plan...
...industry that once took its lumps together is now finding common cause in areas from public policy to jointly financed advanced research. Ford's McTague, Chrysler's Castaing and their GM counterpart, Arvin Mueller, meet monthly for private dinners in Detroit, overseeing their joint-research programs under a consortium called USCAR, which invests $300 million annually (including $75 million in federal grants) in a range of projects including advanced batteries for electric vehicles, lightweight composite materials for better fuel economy, and environmental improvements on paint and fuel emissions and recyclable parts. No project is more ambitious than the agreement, announced...
Prodded by the disclosure of secret talks between London and the I.R.A., Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds met with his British counterpart, John Major, to discuss an end to 25 years of violence in Northern Ireland. "There was a strong exchange of views," said Reynolds...
Clint Eastwood is his counterpart on the "right" side of the law, and it is a regret the screenplay never puts the two characters face to face in a meaningful verbal interchange. Eastwood and Laura Dern work well together with their biting sarcasm and confidence in much the same kind of dynamic that Eastwood and Rene Russo depicted in "In the Line of Fire." The Clint "man-of-action" character has certainly progressed from the self-possessed, out-for-himself, ruthless justice seeker of his "Dirty Harry...