Word: dissimilarly
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...Litvack, executive director of the Ivy League, concurred that academic standards might suffer if the six teams continued to compete with "schools that were too dissimilar...
Pointless mixing of dissimilar firms now seems finished at Gulf & Western. Says Shearson/American Express Analyst Scott Merlis: "Few of their businesses were related to their other businesses." Instead, the company now seems determined to focus sharply on a few areas: consumer products (apparel, Kayser-Roth; home furnishings, Simmons), entertainment (Paramount) and financial services (Associates Corp...
...Faculty's office in University Hall, leaving a campus fraught with student agitation and faculty in-fighting. However, within the same month Dunlop departed an academic pressure cooker, he was thrown into another fire as President Nixon's director of the Cost of Living Council. There he faced dissimilar yet equally challenging problems...
...Collier formula, devised in the early 1970s by a former assistant dean of the College. Bruce Collier, seeks to address the disparities among the newly dissimilar Houses through a variety of subjective "pain" factors, based on different living conditions. For example, if a student lives in a suite's living room or if a student's bedroom serves as a passageway to a bathroom, then the rooming configuration receives a certain number of "pain" points. Using information on every one of the College's nine types of room configurations, the Collier formula tries to minimize the pain while maximizing...
...candidates' styles could not be more dissimilar. Danforth, an uncommonly shy campaigner who appears on the stump infrequently, is an ordained Episcopal priest and an heir to the Ralston Purina dog-food and cereal fortune. He is emphasizing his efforts to help two beleaguered groups-the state's auto workers (with increased tariff protections against imports) and its farmers (with rural enterprise zones). But, as the first Republican elected to the Senate from Missouri since 1946, Danforth is de-emphasizing his ties to the Reagan economic program. One of his political ads urges voters to forget the Republican...