Word: distinction
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Scientists long ago recognized that every comet has not one but two tails, not always visually distinct, both extending millions of miles by the time the comet has moved close to the sun. They now know that the yellowish, often curved tail is composed of dust particles released during sublimation and swept away from the sun by the pressure of solar radiation. Sunlight reflecting off the tail produces the fiery effect. The second, bluish appendage is called the plasma or ion tail. It is formed when gases from the comet's nucleus become charged by solar radiation and then react...
Ideally, administrators should oversee personnel and curriculum changes without the unnecessary interference of students. Minority students, however, must overcome the burden of a tradition that excludes them in both areas. If tradition is a venerable and distinct legacy of the Harvard name, traditionalism is an ideology of complacency that refuses the urgency...
Harvard (7-2 overall, 5-1 Ivies) enters the Yale Bowl this afternoon (1 p.m. kickoff) as distinct favorites to hand Yale (3-4-1, 2-3-1) its third loss in a row and fourth in five games (the non-loss was a 17-17 tie with Dartmouth...
...CHEAP thrill, but a thrill nonetheless, to watch conservatives flail about on the issue of U.S.-South African relations. Had the Republican set learned low to lose gracefully, we would not have had the distinct joy of reading some of the most tortured prose to dribble forth from right-wing pens since the supply-siders tried to convince us that tax cuts plus military buildup would equal balanced budget...
...four Independent candidates, none of whom have children in the Cambridge schools, have emphasized budgetary issues more than the CCA slate, yet they all put forth distinct priorities...