Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meeting of a group with separate, distinct agendas using the coalition to have more political clout," So said. "But it is a group concerned with the general rights and concerns of minority students...
...many colleagues believe, may have been a mass extinction of many of the planet's species late in the Triassic period. It could have been caused by the impact of a massive asteroid or comet, perhaps, or by dramatic climate changes triggered as Pangaea separated to form distinct continents. As other animals disappeared wholesale, the dinosaurs evolved rapidly to fill vacant ecological niches. Says Sereno: "It's very difficult to argue that the dinosaurs had something the others didn't. Instead of evolving because they were better, maybe they evolved because there was a sudden vacuum." For whatever reason...
Each of the Cambridge's 14 elementary schools have worked, and are still working to create a distinct educational atmosphere and focus. Programs like Harrington's kindergarten through third grade community computer lab that features 25 Macintosh computers and Graham and Parks' development of innovative year-long themes to package standard curriculum in a bold, new way, distinguish the schools from one another and contribute toward the goals of Cambridge's school choice program...
According to Dr. Roger G. Mark, assistant professor of medicine and co-director of HST, the Division resembles a graduate program and offers students three distinct benefits: the presence of mentors in research, flexible programming, and some financing for research conducted during the graduate years...
...complex game of social chess played by chimps and other primates, having the intellectual skills to anticipate a rival's moves and engage in deceit is a distinct advantage. Consider the double deception observed at a feeding station in Tanzania's Gombe Stream Reserve. A wild chimp had the luck to be alone next to a feeding box when it was opened by remote control. Noticing that another, more dominant chimp was approaching, the first one closed the box and moved nonchalantly away until the second chimp moved on. Once the interloper was gone, the first chimp opened...