Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lasting marriage depends upon each partner's proper understanding of his or her role in that partnership. Those roles are complementary yet distinct, as reflected in the act of intercourse itself. A coeducational environment that fosters a misleading sexual identity--one of masculinized females and feminized males--guarantees at the very least confusion in the life of the man and woman who, having come to believe that little or no difference separates the sexes, discover the opposite to be true...
Cheng said The Sponge differs from Lighthouse in focusing on a distinct group of women. Despite the obvious differences between minorities, lesbians and working-class women, Cheng said they share a common bond...
Unfortunately, that's often not the message you get from the three Republican musketeers. Especially for the xenophobic Helms, Bosnia is an opportunity to attack the idea of international organizations, of which he has a distinct phobia (witness his hysterics over the World Trade Organization...
...Helms message that carries the day, that would have major repercussions. The U.S. is the primary funder of the U.N., and without its support the organization will start to shrivel. A little shriveling, of course, might not be bad; the U.N. has distinct symptoms of blosting. But will Helms and company know when to stop? It's unlikely...
Watching the election returns on television two weeks ago, I had the distinct impression, a passing vision really, that the end of the world was upon...