Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Germany's Metallgesellschaft. Budd Automotive, which introduced the all-steel body in 1914, is now part of Thyssen Budd Automotive, which will soon be folded into emerging industrial conglomerate Thyssen Krupp AG. Carmakers themselves are also creating new players. Both Ford and GM have turned their component divisions into distinct profit centers with fancy names like Visteon and Delphi, and Renault and Fiat recently announced they were blending their foundry activities into a $2 billion-a-year systems supplier...
Rushmore is not a film with a clear, distinct plot. Rather, it works with a story that is continually shifting gears. What begins as Max's struggle to maintain his self-identity while facing "sudden death academic probation" quickly changes into his dogged pursuit of a charming first grade teacher, Ms. Cross (Olivia Williams, free from the purgatory known as The Postman). Hoping to build an aquarium to impress her, Max enlists the help of Blume, a Rushmore benefactor whose vindictive speech against rich kids wins Max's friendship early on. Unfortunately, in a rather predictable twist, Blume also falls...
Ignoring this problem would effectively drive out those citizens who help give Cambridge its distinct and diverse character. The loss of those who primarily benefit from low-cost units--the elderly and disabled, single working mothers, retired long-time residents and other low-income residents--would be a critical blow to Cambridge's vibrant political activism...
...area stretches southwest from the Theater District and westward along the Mass Pike until Copley Square. The "Emerald Necklace" laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted, Class of 1894, borders it on the west. Its southern border is less distinct, eventually melting into northern Roxbury along an ambiguous dividing line...
...time to make the call. No problem. Click on an icon, and your cyberhoney's phone rings in an instant--a few blocks or a few thousand miles away. And it's not just any ring. Everyone in the house has a separate phone line, each with a distinct sound. So when they're all huddled together watching a movie on cable, they know who needs to get up to answer. Of course, no one really has to get up, because they all have a cell phone handy, and it doesn't cost anything extra to take the call that...