Word: distinctive
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They are principally congregating in three distinct areas: the Pacific Rim, including not only such thriving hubs as Tokyo and Hong Kong but China, / Vietnam and Cambodia as well; Latin America, especially Mexico, which, thanks to the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement last year, has become a potentially major market for U.S. goods and expertise; and Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union, where capitalism is breaking out all over, often in unpredictable ways. "Only an entrepreneurial student is willing to walk into so unstructured an environment," says consultant Hanigan. "You have the cowboys going...
While the health-care issue cuts both ways for Wofford, the Clinton factor is a distinct disadvantage. Wofford's campaign committee has gone so far as to prepare a long list of issues on which he and the President differ. "This ((race)) is not a referendum on Bill Clinton," he insists -- though he knows his 1991 victory was widely seen as partly a referendum on George Bush...
With a cease-fire declaration by the Irish Republican Army a distinct probability, two I.R.A. leaders were granted temporary visas to enter the United States. The action was a rare waiver of a U.S. ban against those linked to the IRA's terrorist acts. The U.S. is also reportedly considering a major aid package for Northern Ireland...
While the New Yorker has recently been devoting a lot of space to coverage of the O.J. Simpson murder case and female-to-male transsexuals, its readership remains demographically distinct from the National Enquirer's. There is no market in which readership of both is above their national averages...
...double its membership during Stern's brief candidacy to 800, a party official told TIME Daily. "He gave us the equivalent of millions of dollars of free publicity," says Blay Tarnoff, ballot access coordinater for the Libertarians, and an ardent Stern for Guv supporter. Left unsaid was the distinct probability that the Libertarians failed to gather the number of voter signatures required for putting Stern's name on the ballot...