Word: distinction
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Formed last year, the group participated in two major protest movements this year--the Living Wage Campaign and the anti-sweatshop movement. The two movements have two distinct negotiating styles based on different expectations of the administration...
Duehay's skills for negotiating between verydistinct camps can be seen most starkly from histhree distinct constituencies he represented.Duehay pulled on the working class Cambridgecommunities as well as white collar and academicenclaves. His supporters ran the gamut frommoderate "good government" Republicans to far leftliberal activists...
Since I was eight or so, I have had a special niche in my world-classification for college students. Distinct from full-fledged adults (tax-paying car-washers in Southern California), yet certainly not of the same species of the younger student (the grade school variety who reach water-fountains and recognize pop songs with ease), college students were strident independents, free spirits mastering maturity, dabbling along...
...there is growing evidence that giving some children, particularly those under age 5, a sedative before an operation helps minimize the anxiety later on. That seems only logical, and yet less than 20% of children in parts of the U.S. are given a sedative--a calming drug that is distinct from anesthesia--before surgery, in contrast to 75% of adults. The push to change the way youngsters are prepped got a big boost this spring when Dr. Zeev Kain of Yale reported that in the first week after an operation, children given the liquid form of midazolam (the most commonly...
...student center is a distinct departure from the past," Anderson says. "It will have a cafe, a place for computers, and students can view lectures or sporting events...