Word: discernment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...across the world, destroying families, social institutions and, eventually, every shred of recognizable civilization. The blindness begins when one man is suddenly and inexplicably struck with a strange, dazzling white blindness. Helplessly seeking to find an explanation and cure, the man infects everyone he meets. The blindness does not discern between good and evil--it infects a car thief as easily as a doctor, a prostitute as easily as a child...
During the stretch, it was difficult to discern whether it was the Huskies or the Crimson that had an undefeated record. Harvard, the No. 22 team in the nation, was playing in its typical disciplined, organized, relentless style...
...Have you seen the way they're slicing the salami?" asked Simpson, a former Republican senator from Wyoming. "You'll need an electron microscope to discern the slices here...
...capitalism and toss it all overboard. The leading candidates to succeed Yeltsin already include Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and retired General Alexander Lebed, the Governor of Krasnoyarsk province. Luzhkov cultivates the air of a strongman and is no fan of reform. Lebed's political views are hard to discern, but he, like Luzhkov, is a firm nationalist. If either were elected President, he would probably arrive in the Kremlin with colleagues even more extreme...
...were four or five. It was a light pickup; it was a three-ton truck. It bore diplomatic license plates; it had no license plates. The FBI is sorting through all these conflicting stories, feeding them into its state-of-the-art Rapid Start mobile computer system, which can discern similarities in the accounts or subtle patterns of association among seemingly unconnected characters, places or events...