Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make money. But it's less conservatism than materialism." Says Lillie Dollinger, an economics major at Texas A & M: "In the '80s the issues are money and jobs, and the conservatives are the ones getting students stirred up." At the same time, there has been a distinct cool ing on college campuses toward affirmative action: students tend to view special help for minorities as a threat to their own chances of success...
...leader of the Lucy expedition, Anthropologist Donald Johanson, touched off a major anthropological controversy by lumping Lucy and other East African fossils into a single new species, which they called Australopithecus afarensis (apeman from Afar). These Lucy-type creatures, they said, were common ancestors of two distinct hominid lines-the australopithecines, which presumably died out, and the strain that 'led eventually to Homo sapiens...
Concern over the discriminatory potential of Achievements has increased the desirability of the SAT, especially to those who believe that the exam tests some native ability--one distinct from external influences or curriculum variations. But testing moguls increasingly suggest that the SAT itself is an "achievement" test, albeit a general one. Indeed, the College Board itself has never subscribed to the view that the SAT weighs aptitude alone. "We're consistent in our description of the test as one subject to schooling and other influences...ETS never claimed it was a measure of innate or genetic factors," says Robert...
Christianity is also shifting in denominational terms. The fastest growing category is what Barrett labels nonwhite indigenous churches. Including Africans not tied to Western missions, these groups by the year 2000 will number 154 million. The biggest distinct category of Protestants today does not consist of traditional Reformation groups, such as the Lutherans, but the Pentecostalists-at 51 million strong, a leading strain of the worldwide Evangelical movement. In addition, 11 million members of more traditional denominations follow Pentecostal practices. Barrett's astounding conclusion: the Evangelicals, taken all together, today command a healthy majority of Protestants in the world...
They wrote that the "potentially bizarre occurrence" arose during the first day of an anatomy laboratory, when medical students began dissecting nine cadavers. At the end of the class, "a student informed the director that the distinct possibility existed that one of the cadavers (not the one she was dissecting) was a great aunt...