Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the Aral Sea. The temperature was near freezing. Flight officials held an urgent meeting, then made their decision: it was a go. Minutes later the Soviet Union's first space shuttle rose, unmanned, out of a giant fireball that spread over the steppe. Looking much like its U.S. counterpart, the white- tiled, double-delta-winged vehicle, called Buran (Snowstorm), made two orbits around the earth, then executed a perfect automated landing a few miles from where it had blasted off. Total flight time: 3 hours 25 minutes...
...Charter Club has been cut from virtually the same cloth as Ralph Lauren's signature lines. Among Charter Club's recent best sellers: handmade sweaters emblazoned with horses and wine-colored skirts printed with flying birds. While Lauren's hand-knit sweaters can cost $345, a Charter Club counterpart sells for $124. Designers shrug off such imitation as a cost of doing business. Says Louis Dell'Olio, designer for the Anne Klein label: "There isn't a designer on Seventh Avenue whose clothes haven't been knocked off by every store...
Last week's infection was the latest manifestation of an epidemic of viruses that has struck the U.S. in the past year. Similar to its biological counterpart, an electronic virus is a program that copies itself by taking control of a computer's internal machinery. Unlike more malicious versions, the new virus did not destroy data stored in computers, but it did disrupt the work of tens of thousands of researchers hooked into Arpanet. It also penetrated unclassified branches of a second, more secure network called Milnet, which is used by military researchers. Said a Government computer expert...
Defensive Line: The defensive line holds its opponents to an average of 144 yards rushing per contest. Defensive end Ben Cowan is Peterson's cross-town counterpart. He is a fierce pass rusher and an intimidating run-stopper. The rest of the line includes Darrow Patton, Bill Caraher and Arnie Galvez (6-ft., 3-in. and 260 pounds...
...most striking success so far in the Gorbachev reforms has been the liberalization in cultural affairs, media content and public discussion known collectively as glasnost, which at present has virtually no counterpart in China. Its success in the Soviet Union may be a little too striking at times for Gorbachev, who told Soviet media officials to stop "collecting horror stories" about Soviet society. But he insisted that "we are not talking about any limits on glasnost." In fact, he seemed exhilarated by his tour through Siberia last month, when ordinary Soviets peppered him with complaints about housing and just about...