Word: distinctive
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...mostly Southern syndrome that travels in the Lone Star tick. The disease is found in 30 states, including Texas and Oklahoma. More than 400 cases of monocytic Ehrlichiosis, nine of them fatal, have been documented since the mid-'80s. Unfortunately the two species of Ehrlichia are sufficiently distinct from each other so that the existing test for the monocytic disease will not always betray the presence of the granulocytic...
TIME's James Willwerth reports the defense expects to take about 30 working days to make its presentation. The case will have several distinct phases: One: character witnesses ranging from Simpson relatives to golfing buddies, who will talk about "how much O.J. loved, but more importantly, respected Nicole; how he had come to terms with the divorce; how calm and unbloody he was on the flight to Chicago; and how tortured he was returning to Los Angeles." Two: the neighbors. Three: as many as 10 witnesses who will accuse LAPD Det.Mark Fuhrmanof being a racist. Four: tough challenges...
...There was more to itthan that, of course, but certainly I was growingdiscouraged. Going to services at Harvard-Epworth,the only Methodist church in Cambridge, did notquite restore confidence, particularly as thepastor frequently made references to literaryfigures. Suddenly, the Bible seemed littledifferent form Paradise Lost, and John theBaptist barely distinct form Milton...
...find somewhere in the foundations ofmost religions and cultures, though they may takea thousand and one distinct forms, common elementssuch as respect for what transcends us, whether wemean the mystery of Being or a moral order thatstands above us; certain imperatives that come tous from heaven, or from nature of from our ownhearts; a belief that our deeds will live afterus; respect for our neighbors, for our families,for certain natural authorities; respect for humandignity and for nature: a sense of solidarity andbenevolence towards guests who come with goodintentions...
...company's mountainous debt, which will increase to $17.3 billion after two new cable deals close. He has promised to sell off assets and restructure the company, but investors are waiting impatiently. At the same time, he must still mediate between squabbling factions in a company with two distinct corporate cultures that were mingled but never quite merged when Time Inc. acquired Warner Communications...