Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presidential balloting in the history of China. They see Lee, flashing his broad grin, standing in the well of the U.S. House of Representatives, addressing a joint meeting of Congress. And they see him moving on to other world capitals to take a bow as the head of a distinct, democratic and economically powerful state on Chinese soil...
...Charles Eliot shared with most of his contemporaries the assumption that there were a number of distinct races, each with its own identifiable characteristics. As has already been suggested, he also believed that the special talents, qualities, and interests of each race should be preserved, insofar as possible.... Nevertheless, he identified race as a positive component of diversity, and defined racial diversity as an element that enhances--rather than diminishes--the vitality and strength of a democratic society...
What the data may be saying is simply that the dividing line between stars and planets may be less distinct than astronomers had believed. "Everything found so far poses challenging questions for planetary formation theory," says astronomer Robert Stefanik, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. That was underscored last week when, after weeks of government shutdown, results were released from a NASA experiment much closer to home. The probe's plunge from the Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter's atmosphere showed that the planet has higher winds, less lightning, less water, helium and neon, and--at the point of impact...
...America. In "Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art," therefore, not surprisingly the themes of loss, separation, and alienation dominate overtly. But as each artist lets these general ideas churn on the surface, the deeper psychological effects of such attacks on identity gradually bubble up, too, revealing more tortured, distinct individual sufferings...
...faculty objections] involve the restoration of genuine consultation and collaboration, as distinct from the misrepresented and discredited consultative procedures of 1994," wrote Paul. "This is an issue which is not going to go away, since decisions involving the best use of the resources of the University in accomplishing its missions of education and research must involve the faculty as well as the administration."Crimson File PhotoDAVID S. LANDES...