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...that there is at least "a semantic difference between being paid and running for prizes. If you were to say to me, 'Is the Boston Marathon going professional?' my answer is emphatically no. As to paying prize money, under the existing rules of amateurism, that is a distinct possibility...
Gerald M Roth '84, a staff writer, said yesterday that the paper aims to "clarify exactly what libertarians is and more specifically to point up in distinct difference from the official platforms of either of the two major parties. "Libertarians, despite what others may think, are not Reaganites," he added...
...that each of the openers doesn't have its own distinct flavor. In '79, the crowd was talking mostly about the disappointment of the year before, and Rice. Evans and Lynn all homered. Two years ago, the star was Eckersley in a close 3-1 pitchers' duel...
...Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie have been asked to appoint a follow-up group to work out the practical steps necessary to produce reunion. One likely form of such a reunion would involve not an absorption of Anglicans into the existing Church of Rome, but a confederation of distinct, spiritually united, sister churches...
...well respected for his work with precocious math students of both sexes - and Camilla Benbow had tested 10,000 talented seventh-and eighth-graders between 1972 and 1979. Using the Scholastic Aptitude Test, in which math questions are meant to measure ability rather than knowledge, they discovered distinct sex differences. While the verbal abilities of the males and females hardly differed, twice as many boys as girls scored over 500 (on a scale of 200 to 800) on mathematical ability; at the 700 level, the ratio was 14 to 1. The conclusion: males have inherently superior mathematical reasoning ability...