Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject), and is accepted by the Internal Revenue Service. Reliable gambling statistics are as hard to come by as Red Chinese production figures. According to some reports cited by the President's Commission on Law Enforcement, organized crime takes in $50-billion in gross revenues from gambling (as distinct from total turnover, which would be much higher). But the commission seems willing to settle for an estimate of $7 billion. Legal gambling has estimated revenues of about $1 billion...
Last week there were two distinct rebuffs from Paris. The first involved British, French and West German plans to build the subsonic, short-range Airbus, which would carry 250 passengers and go into service by 1972. By agreement of the three governments, Britain was to build the craft's engine. Trouble is, the envisioned Rolls-Royce model is still on the drawing boards, while the U.S.'s Pratt & Whitney already has a suitable engine in the test stage. So France's largest manufacturer of aircraft engines, SNECMA, announced that it would exercise its option to build...
...Confession has a section on "Revelation and Religion" that puts all religions on the same human level, incuding the Christian religion, and then distinguishes between them all and God's relevation of himself. It says "The Christian religion, as distinct from God's revelation of himself, has been shaped throughout its history by the cultural forms of its environment...The church in its mission encounters the religions of men and in that encounter becomes conscious of its own human character as a religion." The parallels the Christian finds between other religions and his own, it says, means that he "must...
...political instinct. A warrior king leading an army, a cardinal campaigning for the papacy, a politician running for election, a merchant preparing a deal, a woman looking for a husband-all are involved in public relations. Yet only lately, and only in America, has p.r. grown into a distinct, elaborate skill...
...history of the House. Rule 238 of Cannon's Precedents states that it "is the custom of the House to defer final action against members under criminal charges pending disposition in the court of last resort." Thus, even if the powers of exclusion and expulsion were not maintained distinct -- giving Congress dangerously broad discretionary power -- the treatment of Powell, if based on his legal troubles in New York, remains unjustified. His libel case is still under appeal...