Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bigger type face, and its number of daily pages will jump from 28 to 40. Page One will carry several stories, including a feature to be typeset with ragged right edges; the second page will become primarily an expanded index; the rest of the paper will be structured into distinct sections, each with its opening cover page. Says Fanning: "We are attempting to fit into the fast pace of life. People cannot pore through a paper these days...
...Einstein in 1905 had shown that electricity and magnetism were different aspects of one world activity. In 1919 he showed that gravity was another world activity. It was impossible, he believed, that gravity and electro-magnetism were two distinct activities. So he was obliged to re-examine his world...
...terror which confronted Lien and her brothers was more phantom than graphic, since few people were actually executed before civilian eyes. But the three recall clearly: the sudden and permanent disappearances; people's belongings strewn along roadsides; the distinct, revolting stench of corpses which wafted into the camp from the neighboring woods; and the rumors and stories passed along by chance witnesses of the Khmer Rouge's but cheering...
...positive side, student delegates point to the council's first major victory the preservation of unlimited on-campus summer storage privileges. In scoring perhaps the most distinct victory for students in years, the council maintained unlimited storage through an in-depth research study that contradicted official claims that House renovations and Summer School needs would cause severe cutbacks in the traditional student service...
...Steiner says he is wary nonetheless of the potential for conflicts of interest when a Ropes and Gray lawyer serves on the Corporation, and has urged that the two bodies stay distinct. "There weren't problems in the past," he says, "but in the future I think it's best to keep the two separate...