Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Collaboration with his counterpart at Yale, Harvard's Athletic Director, Adolph W. Samborski chose the latter...
Highest and Lowest. Americans are undoubtedly the world's highest-paid people, though Europeans and Japanese collect far flossier fringe benefits. Still, a $7,000-a-year bank teller hardly feels happy about the fact that he may be earning 25% more than his Continental counterpart. The human tendency is to gauge compensation not by one's needs but by the relative pay of peers-countrymen, colleagues and neighbors. Many truck drivers last year earned more than $15,000, thanks to the Teamsters' knack of squeezing out the most in wage negotiations. Human nature being what...
...generated by more than one person at a time." The criticism is somewhat hasty. While Freud lacks a construct for interpersonal relations comparable to Laing's Us and Them, Freud's pleasure and reality principles provide an approach to the problem of the individual and society which has no counterpart in Laing. Laing show no recognition of the economic basis of civilization, and does not attempt to reconcile his suggestions on sanity and inner voyages with an economic theory. Laing distrusts the validity of any system too large to be experienced by one person...
...Rosovsky report recommended that a black student center be provided as "something of a counterpart to Hillel House, the Newman Center, or the International Center," and urged that the University "use [its] good offices in securing and financing a building and providing continued support to the activities of such a social and cultural center...
...Fuentes book were cabrones(s.o.b.'s). "As soon as they see a little chance, right away they want to get in on it, and they take off to brown-nose the next big shot on the rise," he told Francisco (Pancho) Villa, his more flamboyant and barbaric northern counterpart. Villa later retired from the field with a $250,000 government "grant." Zapata was cut down in an ambush set by men who thought that death was the best cure for incorruptibility...