Word: counterpart
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...This seems fitting, because Shea Stadium is itself a giant error in both form and functionality. Unlike Yankee Stadium, its counterpart across the Long Island Sound, Shea’s massive concrete and steel structure has none of the quaint charm of a bygone era. Its proportions are oppressively regular and unimaginative, its seats are painted garish and clashing colors, its sightlines—a vestige from the stadium’s original design as a dual use football/baseball facility—are all bad. Sounds of the game are drowned out by the frequent roar of commercial jets taking...
...experience, his oratory gifts and his impressive life story. And if the primary prerequisite in a vice-presidential pick is finding someone unambiguously qualified to inherit the Oval Office, Obama made a judicious choice, especially in light of the competence questions that have continually dogged Biden's embattled Republican counterpart, Sarah Palin. Indeed, even the Republicans - who have hit their opponents on a wide range of issues, in keeping with the nonstop attack politics of the modern era - have not disputed Biden's readiness to lead. But as the vice-presidential hopeful heads into Thursday's debate with Palin...
...people close to Hitler kept telling him it was still possible to win," retorts a former government adviser. "That's what the people close to Brown are like." But there's some cause for optimism in the bunker: only a year ago, Brown was riding high and his Conservative counterpart, David Cameron, was in the doldrums. The speedy reversal in their fortunes recalls the old dictum that a week is a long time in politics...
...memorized talking points, rather than a substantive debate in which the merits of ideas can truly be tested. It seems a shame, therefore, that this same flexibility will not characterize the vice-presidential debate, in which Senator Joe Biden will face off against Governor Sarah Palin. Unlike its presidential counterpart, the much-anticipated Biden-Palin showdown will be constrained by a more restrictive format that leaves little time for questions or interactions between debaters. Even more troubling than the curtailed structure is that the McCain campaign has publicly admitted to insisting upon such a format in an attempt to hide...
...month later, New Delhi's fears have been calmed - if not fully dispelled. During a five-day trip to India in September, the Nepali Prime Minister warmly embraced his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh, stressing that good relations with India were "vital" for Nepal's future and downplaying his earlier Chinese visit as merely a happy opportunity to witness the greatest show on earth...