Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took care to find out the parental backgrounds, the atmosphere within the home, and the dates of birth for the children of these women in order to see how such factors affected their activity outside the home. Included in the dictionary are not only those women who made a distinct contribution in whatever fields they chose; but also those who, while not leaders, are significant precisely because they worked in areas non-traditionally feminine. Thus alongside the Grimke sisters is Charlotte Ray, the first black woman lawyer. And in contrast to the impact of the two abolitionist/feminists is the fact...
...going to allow Western Europe and Japan to go down the drain to support Israel?" Morgenthau wonders. Other observers find a distinct decline in what one study calls "the new and hard-won status of American Jewry?which by the early '60s had virtually reached a point
...Dudley co-op and the Jordans are as different from each other as they both are from the Houses--the three Jordans have distinct "personalities" too--and the differences are reflected in the way each group views the other. From the more-detached perspective of the Dudley co-op, the Jordans are hardly distinguishable from the Quad Houses...
Candidate Jackson has a distinct advantage at this point. He can speak in generalities: "taking inventory of resources," "thinking of new technologies," "seeing an America fully employed," "building a new America," "not corrupting the atmosphere and the water and the land in the name of growth...
...same time, there are plenty of job vacancies-for the right people in the right places. Robert Olivier, a Manhattan-based executive headhunter, reports the highest level of assignments in four years. "The distinct difference," he points out, "is that companies are generally upgrading their demands now. They are not settling for second best." Demand also varies geographically and by industry. Oil companies in the Southwest, for instance, need executives; housing, brokerage and merchant banking firms almost everywhere do not. One particularly promising area for experienced managers is the Middle East, where skilled Americans are often paid two or three...