Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House, regarded as normal for the President's party at midterm, would shave the Democrats' margins so thin as to perhaps bring back legislative gridlock. Greater losses could virtually end Clinton's chances for getting any important legislation passed, and the elections last week indicate that is a distinct possibility. Very far from a certainty, of course: a recent quickening in the economic recovery, if it continues and brings an upsurge in employment, could convince many alienated voters that the status quo is not so awful after all. But a continuation of the present anti- incumbent mood could hurt...
This writer holds two distinct off-the-court impressions of Campbell...
Because of the uniqueness of the virus, syas Hirsch, researchers are forced to use two distinct strategies to create a vaccine. The first approach is the classical one, the strategy used for polio, mumps and measles (please see main story...
...reacted to these crude and, in most eyes, culturally negligible designs in the way an earlier American stylist, Elie Nadelman, had responded to anonymous folk art. He found beauty and a sort of wry pathos in them, along with a disregarded but distinct sense of style. Lichtenstein wasn't the first artist to react to American comic strips. Miro is plausibly said to have been influenced by George Herriman's now classic Krazy Kat. Apart from Stuart Davis, however, he was the first American artist to do so, because American artists had always been rather ashamed of their own vernacular...
...robust as investments in mutual funds based in U.S. stocks have been, their growth seems anemic compared with the boom in overseas funds. On average, foreign mutuals have soared nearly 30% so far this year. A distinct scent of euphoria surrounds "emerging markets" in Asia and Latin America, as U.S. money cascades in and pushes them to new heights. As this speculative bandwagon gathers speed, more investors clamber aboard. Americans plowed a record $7 billion into overseas funds in 1992, plus $21.7 billion more in the first nine months of this year. It's hard to argue with double-digit...