Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coach Harry Parker's first boat was a distinct underdog against a Princeton crew which went undefeated in last year's regular season. Seven rowers returned, including several from the U.S. and Canadian national teams...
...Common Room, HRDC's The Cocktail Party should be seen first and considered later. Party because actually seeing the floor-level set past twelve rows of upper-class attendees requires great skill and cunning and partly because the play is riddled with T.S. Eliot's innocuously cryptic language, no distinct message leaps forth from the play. Rather, various lines worm their way into the audience, reappearing days later as pertinent homilies for the daily personal lives of audience members...
Each family member wears a distinctive name-brand ski jacket that is ranked in a hierarchy somewhere between North Face and Columbia. Likewise, each carries a distinct pair of skis custom-fitted to match the specialized needs of these upper-middle class patrons of the latest and greatest in ski equipment...
...regulating the production of chimeras as closer study may demand and not abandoning this avenue of scientific pursuit as the spirit of Newman's patent advises, we raise the very distinct possibility of developing a more universally acceptable (and beneficial) middle ground...
That is not a minor hit. It would mean gross domestic product's increasing considerably less than the robust 3% or so that it might otherwise have managed, unemployment's rising a bit rather than sinking to still further lows, and a distinct slowdown in corporate profits--especially among companies that had been exporting $300 billion or more a year to the Asian region. On the other hand, sagging demand from Asia is contributing to a worldwide deflation (a term rarely heard since the 1930s) in commodity prices, especially oil. And that is helping to douse what little inflationary fire...