Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other issues, their interests -- and thus their policies -- diverge. For one thing, Bush and Gorbachev are operating in entirely different domestic political environments. The man in the White House has strong backing from his citizens, while his counterpart in the Kremlin has received delegations of Muslims from Transcaucasia and Central Asia who are angry at the spectacle of infidels bombing an Islamic nation...
...dispute exists because bomb-damage assessment is more an art than a science. Each of the agencies involved -- Central Command in Riyadh, the Air Force command, the Central Intelligence Agency and its military counterpart, the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency -- has its own way of deciding whether a target has been destroyed. Not surprisingly, the different techniques have yielded divergent results...
...scale could not have occurred without the implicit ! approval of governments. "A deliberate effort to fail to be informed," says Cordesman, "is just another form of collaboration." In a belated acknowledgment that arming one perceived monster to fight another can boomerang, Secretary of State James Baker and his Soviet counterpart, Alexander Bessmertnykh, issued a joint statement last week calling for restraint in the "spiraling arms race" in the Middle East. A gesture, most likely, both too little and too late...
BOSTON--The Harvard women's hockey team had just the opposite experience of its male counterpart in this years' Beanpot. With a relaxed attitude and not too much sweat, the Crimson skated to a 10-0 victory over Boston University last night at Northeastern's Matthews Arena...
Harvard's Brooke Bailey didn't fare as well as her Crimson counterpart. Bailey could not overcome an early first-game loss to Tiger Jackie Moss and fell...