Word: difference
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, the clothes to be shown in China will differ not a whit from the 200 designs paraded last week for Western buyers and fashion reporters at L'Es-pace Cardin in Paris...
Some critics tried to link Taiwan with Israel, claiming that the China decision showed the Carter Administration to be an unreliable ally. But the situations in the Middle East and the Orient differ enormously, and so do U.S. interests in both parts of the world. Moreover, the U.S. stuck with Taiwan-supplying money and arms and maintaining the fiction that Taiwan was China-for nearly 30 years, arguably longer than any other world power in such a situation would have been willing...
Cults can differ considerably in their demands and discipline; not all indulge in coercion or violence. Still, many conform to a standard pattern of behavior. Once a recruit is drawn into a cult-adherents prefer to call it a sect or denomination-its message is incessantly drummed in. The novice is seldom left alone, a prey to random thoughts. Ties are severed with his past life; communications with family and friends may be eliminated altogether, a process that critics regard as "programming" or "brainwashing." Says Kelley: "These movements divide families, split communities, create tension and friction and turmoil. They...
...that everybody gets a new coat of skin every 28 days or so. On white women the effect is often unnoticeable, but the exfoliation can make ashen spots show up on dark skin, unless it is covered with special emollients. The upper and lower lips of black women sometimes differ in color?slightly, but enough to require application of a special base to the relatively lighter lower lip if a lipstick is not to come out two different shades. To tap this market, Revlon three years ago brought out a line of Polished Ambers cosmetics?under the Revlon name rather...
...Sarich calls a "genetic clock." That timepiece is based on comparative studies, done since the early 1960s, of the blood proteins, immunology and DNA (the genetic molecule) of various mammals, including the primates. Out of this work scientists have been able to measure the degree of genetic kinship among different species. They have found, for example, that while the genes of horse and Homo sapiens differ by as much as 20%, those of chimps and man vary by only...