Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most bar managers and owners deny any sort of competitive spirit. They say each establishment is a distinct environment and draws different segments of the Cambridge population...
...what does it mean? Evidently, the brain has distinct systems for classifying different types of objects, and it stores categories of information, such as physical versus nonphysical characteristics, in different ways. Moreover, the study shows that the brain has two classification systems, one language based and one sight based, and that one can be destroyed while the other stays intact...
Probably Krake's enthusiasm for folk art pressed Johnson to look hard at black women's quilts, with their strong outlines -- shapes made by folding and cutting, very unlike the fluid, convulsive drawing of his earlier paintings -- and their bright blocks of distinct color...
...activism has sparked a new debate about sexuality in general. Are people essentially either straight or gay, with bisexuality being merely the unnatural by-product of confusion and repression among some homosexuals? Or is bisexuality a third distinct orientation? Is sexuality governed by biology or culture? Is it fixed, an identity that is set early and endures through life? Or is it fluid, shifting with time and temptation...
That assumption may be ill-founded. Legal experts quickly dismissed defense claims of double jeopardy -- the impermissible prosecution of a person twice for the same offense -- because jurisdiction in federal civil rights charges is distinct from that of the state. Yet in proving that the officers violated King's civil rights, the feds must clear the hurdle that tripped up the state prosecutors: convincing a jury that the police used excessive force. "The issue is ultimately the same," says Professor Erwin Chemerinsky of the University of Southern California Law Center. "Was it reasonable or excessive force? If the jury finds...