Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeed, does the two-disc album, a live recording of unspecified stops made on Bowie's 1977 summer tour. Each side has a distinct sound, roughly charting some of the solar systems Bowie has visited in his galactic travel...
...cost. "If we continue the age-old policy of pork-barrel allocations in the public works bill," he said at his press conference, the Administration would be setting a "horrible example" for the rest of the nation in the effort to control inflation. If Congress overrides his veto-a distinct possibility -Carter can still claim that he did his best to cut wasteful federal spending...
...Tuscan with a deceptively cherubic face, Benelli has earned good marks during his 16 months in Communist-governed Florence. Even during his years as Pope Paul's front-office strong arm, he served as an able conciliator in several sharp internal church disputes. He has trouble delegating authority?a distinct problem for a Pope ?and it is thought that he would oppose needed decentralization in the church. But his adroit leadership was apparent in his role as the principal supporter of the candidacy of John Paul. A Curia man himself, he opposed Curial candidates. Among the pastoral Italian archbishops...
...book's colliding metaphors. The class structure in the United States is imagined either as a stepladder or as an escalator, a continuum without rungs. America's ethnic ingredients are blended in the traditional melting pot or tossed in a salad bowl, "in which each element remains distinct yet contributes to the flavor of the whole...
Bulldozing a trench four meters (13 ft.) deep, he found several distinct breaks in the strata of sand, silt, gravel and peat that had been deposited on the bottom of the marsh over the centuries. Each break represented a sudden shift of at least a meter or two between the land masses on opposite sides of the fault-unmistakable signs of a major earthquake. Using radioactive-carbon dating techniques to determine the age of the dead organic material in the peat layers, he has now determined that the quakes occurred around...