Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...casting of an English actor in a Eurasian part affronted some Asian Americans, including playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly). Last week the board of Actors' Equity -- a union representing 40,000 U.S. performers and maintaining a reciprocal arrangement with its British counterpart -- refused to grant Pryce permission to appear on Broadway because he is not Asian. So far, so predictable: Mackintosh was expected to take the matter to arbitration and win his case, while the protesters reaped some sympathy and publicity...
...allowed to attend since the Communist government had not let him leave the country in many years. But now Havel is the government -- and he had R.S.V.P.ed, after all. So off to Mozart's birthplace the Czechoslovak President went last week, even if it did mean meeting his Austrian counterpart, Kurt Waldheim, thus breaching the international isolation imposed on the Austrian leader because of his dubious wartime past...
Today the Lance flap is long forgotten and Genscher's renegade view of the Soviets, once derided by his allies as being "soft" on communism, has proved visionary. Among the Foreign Minister's rewards has been a vastly improved relationship with his U.S. counterpart, James Baker. Though the two men sparred testily over the Lance affair, they now act like old pals. Both are workaholics, lawyers by training, brainy and pragmatic; when together, they cut through diplomatic blather with hyperspeed. "Genscher loves to play with Baker," says a German diplomat. "He understands how Baker's mind works -- so much like...
...only adds to such worries. Dudelitz, 39, who has 16 years of teaching experience, receives a net monthly income of 1,100 ostmarks, or about $655 at the 1-to-1 conversion rate that went into effect July 1. That is roughly a third of what a West German counterpart is paid. "We will be earning even less when rent subsidies disappear and pension contributions rise," she says...
...Several years later, the KGB station in Ottawa leaked some phony documents on CIA letterhead purporting to show that U.S. agents were secretly aiding the Quebec Liberation Front and in various other ways trying to destabilize the central government. An American spook took his Soviet counterpart to lunch and said, "You really want to play this game? Your country may someday have secession problems a lot bigger than Canada...