Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When I mention Buffalo, people think of snow, football, buffalo wings--none of which reflect on me," says Charles A. Goodman '97, who is from New York. "Buffalo isn't a very distinct place...
Transporters can send people instantly from one location to another by converting their molecules into energy, then reassembling them. Every living being has a distinct pattern of molecules; the pattern buffer fixes the configuration by adjusting for the Doppler effect -- the apparent change in the frequency of the energy waves caused by motion...
...through when prescribing pills for their patients. They have already seen results with obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, a condition in which people continuously repeat the same sequence of thoughts or behaviors. By performing sophisticated computer analyses of patients' EEG readings, they have been able to describe distinct patterns that distinguish those who are more likely to respond to drugs from those...
...similar case against an attorney who was accused of defrauding Dime, federal Judge Edward F. Harrington directed a verdict for the defendant on the grounds that he did not defraud a federally insured institution but its distinct subsidiary...
Still, Sophie's World may not be for everyone. The characters are half- dimensional, the plot creaks, and Gaarder's prose (or the translation by Paulette Moller) has a distinct flavor of bark. As fiction, Sophie's World deserves no better than a D+. But as a precis of great thought, Gaarder's tour de force rates a solid...