Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family." It was 3:30 on Sunday afternoon in Beijing, 34 hours after American bombs had wrecked the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. Sasser tried calling his Beijing contacts but couldn't get anyone to pick up the phone. So he frantically placed a call to his counterpart in Washington, Li Zhaoxing. He pleaded with China's ambassador to the U.S. to contact officials in Beijing to provide more police guards. Awakened in the middle of the night, Li sleepily promised to do his best...
Since DaimlerChrysler's incorporation in November, the company has melded its duplicate financial-services and technology divisions. Marketing chief Holden has succeeded in creating a global-sales and marketing organization with German counterpart Dieter Zetsche. Says chief engineer Bernie Robertson: "We have a strong operation here, there's a strong operation in Europe, and now there's the rest of the world to go after." Robertson admits, however, that he's still having a tough time getting German and American engineers to swap jobs...
...China relations because antagonizing China would have little chance of achieving U.S. aims. A powerful China hostile to the U.S. would be a dangerous, destabilizing world force. But unless the leadership in Washington can make the case that partnership with China advances vital interests on both sides--and its counterpart in Beijing can do the same--any political concord between the U.S. and China will be doomed to failure...
...No.1 slot, captain Ivy Wang--battling a shoulder injury that has kept her on the sideline for most of the season-- fought hard against her Fresno St. counterpart, Dora Djilianova, the No. 6 ranked player in the nation. After dropping the first set, Wang forced a tiebreaker in the second, before dropping the contest...
...goal at Random House. Christine McNamara, director of marketing for the large-print division, observes that "nobody has tried this before. No one has gone after the market this way." Random House plans to charge the same price for a large-type book as for its conventional-type counterpart--and use the same covers to minimize the perception that these books are different. Says McNamara: "They'll look just as sexy and glossy as the regular trade edition--just a little bit fatter...