Word: breed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rousseau might have known, men of that caliber don't come along any too often, when they do, they rarely make the compromises necessary to reach adequately influential positions. Visionaries able to persuade without compelling, and convincing enough to sway millions to jettison their selfish tendencies are a vanishing breed (and never a big species in the first place...
...subtle, painful discrimination. He would beat these gentlemen at their own avocation-amateur sport. If that goal required paying a professional coach (wonderfully played by Ian Holm), a tactic that was against the code if not the formal rules, so be it. Liddell was of an entirely different breed. The modest and pious son of missionaries, he ran, as he saw it, for the glory of God. If his faith told him that he must not break the Sabbath by running on Sunday, then so be it. Never mind that the race he was passing up was a qualifying heat...
...this to happen to biologists," Richard M. Losick, professor of Biology and one of the consultants to Biotechnica, says. But most professors, administrators and businessmen familiar with the situation disagree. The consulting arrangement now prevalent in the biological and applied sciences is qualitatively different. A new breed of consultant is emerging...
...typescript and stay too long. Then Helms would remember his 98,000 viewers and look up with a start. He does not smile easily, and his on-camera manner had the slightly sweaty earnestness that TV editorialists, North and South, exude by instinct. Unlike the rest of the breed, however, Helms was rarely bland...
...local standards that makes them oldtimers. Atlantic City's history is conveniently divided between B.C. and A.C.-before and after the casinos. Since the first casino opened only three years ago, the Shusters are definitely B.C., and so, of course, are their guests. They are a vanishing breed, living life slowly in a town that wants to move at top speed, watching with dismay as old landmarks give way to new parking lots and glitzy, glass-and-ormolu gaming houses...