Word: counterpart
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...nordic junior Joe Tofte. “They skied well all year and should continue to place well next year.” The men’s nordic squad, meanwhile, suffered from a rather small squad size and was not able to match the efforts of its female counterpart. “We had a small team this year, consisting of only four guys,” Tofte said. “But based on our situation, we actually skied pretty well this year. We have a couple good recruits coming in next year as well, so we should...
...counterpart of Obama himself ... It's the American Dream - anybody can make it." - George Pavia, managing partner of Pavia & Harcourt. (Washington Post...
...heated battle - this time, about the countries' shared Soviet past. As Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko this week lamented that Ukraine had become "a hostage in the fight between two totalitarian regimes - fascist and communist" and called for Soviet-era symbols around the country to be torn down, his Russian counterpart Dmitri Medvedev ordered the creation of a presidential commission "to counter attempts to harm Russian interests by falsifying history...
...dilemma their U.S. peers are already caught in: a proliferation of Internet-savvy readers unwilling to pay again for the original paper product. Indeed, Texier thinks whatever its current agony, the U.S. newspaper industry stands a better shot of coming out of this period alive than its French counterpart. (Read "How to Save Your Newspaper...
...effort succeeds, it could seriously damage Uribe's impressive legacy. Critics are already painting him as a conservative counterpart to Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's left-wing President who was first elected 11 years ago and has vowed to rule until 2021. Others see parallels with Alberto Fujimori, who took on his country's guerrilla groups and used his popularity to gain a third presidential term in 2000. But Fujimori quickly fell from grace and was forced to resign. Last month, a Peruvian court convicted him of mass murder and kidnapping and sentenced him to 25 years in prison...