Word: counterpart
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...Grassley and his Democratic counterpart, Max S. Baucus of Montana, expressed concern that soaring tuition costs have made it difficult for lower and middle-income families to pay for college education, and that endowments have grown faster than spending on financial...
...Even so, we thought we had good chances of doing well, but the final margin was definitely kind of disappointing.” The freshmen crews proved to be the high points for Harvard in the HYP race. The freshman eight finished just 1.9 seconds behind its New Haven counterpart, the closest any crew had come to Yale at the time. The second freshman eight won its race by almost 15 seconds. “The freshmen have been extremely exciting this year,” second varsity coxswain Dexter Louie said after the HYP race. “They?...
...bulldozers. So far, their efforts have produced, among other things, the country's only major highway, five police stations and three golf courses. (Burma's generals are notoriously fond of the sport.) The new capital is also home to a massive zoo, whose elephants were pillaged from its Rangoon counterpart. Government housing is provided in brightly colored blocks reminiscent of a down-market Florida retirement community. The apartments are color-coded by occupation - blue buildings are for the Ministry of Health, green for the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation...
...subsume her identity to her husband's political ambitions. Her critics - and there have been many - accuse her of endangering the electoral chances of the left-leaning party she's championed all her life. Nope, not Hillary Clinton. The target of these barbs is Clinton's one-time counterpart from across the Atlantic, Cherie Blair: wife of Tony, mother of four, human rights lawyer, and, it now emerges, astonishingly frank autobiographer. Her book, Speaking for Myself, appears on May 15. Perceptions of life behind the shiny black door of 10 Downing Street will never be the same...
Brian Cowen's first full day as Ireland's new Taoiseach (Prime Minister) this week found him on the hoof - lunching with his British counterpart, Gordon Brown, and donning a tux to schmooze U.S. investors at a grand Georgian mansion on the outskirts of Belfast. It was an elegant turn that belied Cowen's long-standing nickname: Biffo...