Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...corporation distinct from Harvard, Radcliffe owns and fully manages buildings in Radcliffe Yard...
Campus activists want to cut at the roots any semblance of rising anti-progressive sentiment because they know they are in the distinct minority at Harvard. Disregarding the political leanings of Harvard students, which are decidedly leftward, those who only want to get to "medical school or Wall Street" (Green's rough synonym for "ignorant immoralists") easily constitute a majority of students, a decidedly apathetic majority. Lacking numbers, the minority of activists knows they are finished if they lose their supposed moral authority and their (still) overwhelming public prominence...
...simulates the ideas and the issues that we are facing in the world, and it provides a distinct connection between our normal lives and global issues," said Tom W. Oakley, a sophomore from the United States Military Academy representing Russia...
...distinct possibility of a maid of honor named Sporty...
...known that HIV crossed over to humans from non-human primates," says TIME Medical correspondent Christine Gorman, "What's not yet explained is whether it began in humans as a single, distinct virus or as the family of viruses it is now." The 1959 virus seems to be an ancestor of two modern strains, suggesting that HIV had already infected humans before it began to mutate...