Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...negotiators are expected to spend at least half their time defining the nature and powers of a government that will preserve Bosnia as a single country--but will be composed of two distinct pieces, a Serbian "Republika Srpska" and the already existing Muslim-Croat federation. These entities are also to be given latitude to forge links with Serbia and Croatia proper...
...very distinct history. [African-Americans are] not quite like other ethnic groups or immigrant groups," Jones-Correa says. "I don't think that having Afro-Am here means that every group should advocate its own separate program...
...dining area in Memorial Hall, is scheduled to open next semester when the Freshman Union shuts down. Although Annenberg Hall is new, it does not improve upon the present Freshman Union. In fact, due to poor planning. Annenberg Hall does not even preserve the qualities that made the Union distinct...
...SUNNY SUBURBAN SPRAWL OF WESTMINSTER, California, a city of 72,000 southeast of Los Angeles, the first-grade classrooms of the Neomia B. Willmore School offer two distinct recipes for the American melting pot. In Room B-3, an English-immersion class, teacher Judy Nguyen plinks on the piano. Winsome, if off-key, her 29 charges launch into "My country 'tis of thee," fading away uncertainly as they reach the line "Land of the Pilgrims' pride." About half the children are native Vietnamese speakers; nine are Hispanic. But the book box holds the Berenstain Bears and Dr. Seuss; cheery posters...
Late 18th century Boston and Philadelphia had a stronger material culture than any other cities in America, but the old Puritan and Quaker distrust of the graven image and preference for the Word had delayed their appreciation of painting (as distinct from furniture or silverware)...Art was mere "limning" and, as Copley complained to West in London, people "regard it as no more than any other useful trade...like that of a Carpenter, tailor or shoe maker, not as one of the most Noble arts in the world. Which is more than a little Mortifying...